Henri Tardieu (1946-2010)

In Memoriam: Jocelyn Anne Rankin (1946–2010)

J Anne Rankin, PhD, chief of the Information Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), died on September 19, 2010, at age 63 in her Florida home. Similar to the health professionals in the organization Médecins Sans Frontières, Jocelyn was a humanitarian and a librarian sans frontières. Although some make a difference by what they do, others, like Jocelyn, also make a diff...

Henri 16 . 04 . 2010 Final report Absolute gravimeter Intercomparison

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...

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Henri ’ s Crystal Ball

O n April 10, 1908, at the general session of the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rome, Gaston Darboux presented a talk by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) entitled The Future of Mathematics (Poincaré was unfortunately unable to deliver the talk himself). The original can be found on the web at: http://gallica. bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k17083c/f934n10. capture. It is now a full c...