Larry Sparks: Innovator and Iconoclast

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GEORGES DARZENS (1867-1954): INVENTOR and ICONOCLAST

Georges Darzen's name is absent from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. This is a regrettable omission, on three grounds. He was a creative organic chemist, to whom we owe both the thionyl chloride conversion of alcohols into chlorides and the "Darzens reaction"—an addition-fragmentation which can be seen as the forerunner to the Wittig reaction. He was a perceptive observer of the scienti...

Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott Columbia University Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1977 and worked in theoretical particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at CERN (the European center for particle physics), and as a physics faculty member at Brandeis. Abbott began a transi...

Larry Weiskrantz

He found himself at loggerheads in the European Commission with Joe Borg, the European fisheries commissioner from Malta. Borg was insisting that time be allowed for a bluefin recovery plan which had been agreed by Iccat. But its poor record on protecting stocks has angered conservationists. One of Dimas’s officials said: “They need to come up with conservation protection measures that live up ...

Larry Spruch and Variational Principles

The development and use of variational principles for various problems in atomic physics by Larry Spruch and his collaborators over the last forty years is reviewed and a roadmap provided for their publications. Typeset using REVTEX 1