Henri Petit, 1928-2015

John Forbes Nash Jr . ( 1928 – 2015 )

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

[In Memoriam. Charles J. Burstone (1928-2015)].

Sa longue carrière sera universitaire. De 1955 à la fin de son existence, il n’aura jamais cessé de soigner, de chercher, d’enseigner. C’est en 1955, en effet, qu’il devient assistant dans le département d’orthodontie de l’Université d’Indiana à Indianapolis où il vient de terminer sa Maîtrise en orthodontie. Il en assumera la responsabilité de 1956 à 1970 après avoir gravi tous les échelons de...

Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle

sia. Nicolle's many accomplishments include the discovery that epidemic typhus is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanis corporis), discovery of the phenomenon of inap-parent infection, and possibly the first isolation of human influenza virus after experimental transmission. Nicolle made many other fundamental contributions to knowledge of infectious diseases. This year is the centenary o...

Petit Mal or Pyknolepsy

[Spontaneous bilateral Petit hernia].

Petit's lumbar hernia is an uncommon defect of the posterior abdominal wall that represents less than 1% of all abdominal wall hernias. It is more often unilateral and founded in young females, rarely containing a real herniated sac. There are two different approaches to repair: laparoscopy and open surgery. The goal of this article is to report one case of spontaneous bilateral lumbar Petit's ...