How a tammany district attorney used his office for his own ends

Carmine Melino: a Universe by his own.

Did Menzel Paint His Own Babinski Sign?

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

Carl Djerassi: in his own words.

In honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Carl Djerassi, J. I. Seeman has assembled a collection of poignant quotes and excerpts from Djerassi's writings which embody his remarkable life experiences, his philosophies of life, and his unique personality.

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen seen through his own eyes. A review of his memoirs.

In the course of the century which has elapsed since the discovery of the leprosy bacillus in 1873 by C. H. Armauer Hansen (1841-1912 ), several biographers and medical historians have stressed the importance of this event. 2 The life span of C. H . Armauer Hansen covers a period when bacteriology was a growing specialty in medical science. Earlier suggestions that certain diseases might be ass...

How Josephson discovered his effect

The discovery of what we have ever since called the “Josephson effect” took place while I was visiting Cambridge, England, for a sabbatical year in 196162. R e c e n t l y , w h e n I t r a v e l l e d t o Kyoto to accept the London Prize on Brian Josephson’s behalf, I put together s o m e r e m i n i s c e n c e s o f t h a t period, which may be more interesting than a mere recapitulation of ...