J. David Richardson: A Biography

Biography of David Tilman

D avid Tilman describes himself as both a theoretical and an experimental ecologist. Currently the McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota (St. Paul), Tilman has spent his career developing theories of biodiversity and species composition that he has tested in carefully designed and controlled experiments. His work on resource competition in b...

Profile of David J. Mangelsdorf.

T wo decades ago, David Mangelsdorf did not expect his basic research findings to help launch an entire field of biology with farreaching implications for a raft of human diseases, including cancer, metabolic disorders, and parasitic infections. Mangelsdorf, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at D...

David J. Gross - Nobel Lecture

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious. Consequently, historians of science often ignore the many alternate paths that people wandered down, the many false clues they followed, the many misconceptions they had. These alternate points of view are less ...

Tony J. Cunha, 1916-1992: a brief biography.

Lyman J. Bratzler, 1905-1976: a brief biography.

Lyman J . Bratzler was born September 24, 1905, at Barrington, IL, where he obtained his elementary and high school education. He was reared on a dairy farm, from which he developed his interest in agriculture. He entered the University of Illinois in 1926 and was a member of the Meats Judging Team in 1929. He received inspiration from some great teachers: Dean Mumford, Sleeter Bull, R. R. Snap...