Joan Newey 1924 – 2014

Ludĕk Kubička, 1924-2014.

Professor Ludĕk Kubička, of Prague, died on 14December 2014, at the age of 90years. Ludĕkwas a leading addiction researcher both in the Czech Republic and internationally, and was admired, respected and loved by students and colleagues world-wide. Ludĕk studied psychology and philosophy at Charles University in Prague, graduating in 1951 and defending his doctoral thesis in 1965. He began his c...

Warren Keith Sinclair (1924-2014).

Kurt Benirschke (1924-)

Kurt Benirschke studied cells, placentas, and endangered species in Germany and the US during the twentieth century. Benirschke was professor at the University of California in San Diego, California, and a director of the research department at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California. He also helped form the research department of the San Diego Zoo and its sister organization [3], the Center...

Sterilization Act of 1924

The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 [4] demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the Virginia sterilization [5] law, the science used to draft the law was based on the principles of eugenics [6]. With the help of Harry Laughlin?s Model Sterilization Law [7], the state of Virginia was able to pass its own law allowing sterilizati...

The Magic Mountain ( 1924 )

The myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. Certainly when a writer has acquired the habit of regarding life as mythical and typical there comes a curious heightening of his artistic temper, a new refreshment to his perceiving and shaping powers, which otherwise occurs much later in ...