Heinrich Theodor von Böttinger †

Theodor Von Grotthuss (1785-1822) – a Trail Blazer

Two hundred years ago Theodor Grotthuss published a major paper entitled “Mémoire sur la décomposition de l’eau et des corps, qu’elle tient en dissolution a’ l’aide de l’élecrticite galvanique.”(1) In a short time this document was reprinted in other journals (2, 3) and was translated into English (4). In this paper Grotthuss presented an electrolysis concept based on physical-chemical phenomen...

Emil Theodor Kocher 1841 – 1917

Johann Heinrich Dierbach (1788–1845)

his eighties. In 1835, he married and settled in Paris as a teacher at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, while conducting agricultural experiments with his brother-in-law on an estate in the Alsace, which was sustained economically by revenues from oil-bearing sands. Although McCosh's account of the collaboration with Dumas and the fat controversy with Liebig does not replace that given by...

The Prague Psychoanalytic Study Group 1933-1938: Frances Deri, Annie Reich, Theodor Dosužkov, and Heinrich Löwenfeld, and their contributions to psychoanalysis.

Evidently Working Parties are not exclusively research projects. There is, firstly, the experience of the participants and, secondly, the ongoing project. As David Tuckett put it: “Taking part is so incredibly useful when you get back home to your analyst’s chair!” Regarding the research aspect Working Parties differ in aim and methodology. One cannot say that one method is inherently superior ...

Otto Heinrich Warburg, 1883-1970.