James Norman Davidson, 1911-1972

James Norman Davidson, 1911-1972.

1972 , Volume , Issue Nov-1972

It makes swept insertion and return loss measurements simultaneously, overa wide frequency range. TO THE MICROWAVE ENGINEER, an instru ment that measures insertion and return loss simultaneously, over a broad band, would be as useful as is the voltmeter to other electronic special ists, provided it is made practical in several im portant ways. • Its measurements must really refer to the micro...

Norman Geschwind

Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was born in New York City on 8 January, 1926, where his parents, Hannah and Morris, had arrived from Polish Galicia 20 years before [4]. When Norman was four, his father died of pneumonia. Despite difficulties, Hannah sent Norman and his brother Irving to the Hebrew Institute of Borough Park, where he never mastered Hebrew [2]. His later years at the Boy’s High Scho...

Hacking Davidson

Scheme,” Donald Davidson argues against the logical possibility of conceptual schemes. Believing it a remnant of the incomplete eradication of dogma in the empiricist tradition, Davidson wishes to undermine what he believes is the source of talk of conceptual relativism: the third dogma of scheme-content duality. Building on Quine, he constructs an argument intended to illustrate the peculiar p...

Eric Davidson

is instrumental against infection. The prize was given to the lab chief, Jules Hoffmann. But the first author on the paper, Bruno Lemaitre, has argued that he initiated the project and planned it, that he made the discovery that mutations in the Toll pathway rendered a fly impotent against infection, that he wrote up the first version of the paper and that Hoffmann’s scientific contribution to ...