Larval development ofLecanogaster chryseaBriggs, 1957

Isabelle Olivieri (1957–2016)

Isabelle Olivieri passed away on Saturday 10 December at 4 a.m. She passed away quietly after having fought not only with an admirable courage against her cancer but also against a paraneoplastic syndrome, which heavily handicapped her for the last years of her life. Isabelle would have passed 60 years in March 2017. She entered the Agronomic College (AgroParisTech) in Paris in 1977, specialize...

[Olaf Breidbach (1957-2014)].

When Olaf Breidbach took over the directorate of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus on 1 April 1995, the philosopher and neurobiologist officially commenced his career as an historian of science. For almost twenty years he held the chair of History of Science in the Biological-Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Science and Technol...

Kuru memories from 1957

These and other letters, including a letter from Dr L. I. Taft reporting on the first brain the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) received, are not included in the published Gajdusek correspondence of the early days. On 4th February, John Gunther sent another letter to Gray Anderson in which he wrote, ‘The Government Anthropologist has visited Fore and informs me the Administration is losi...

Francesco Ruggiero 1957 – 2007

Francesco Ruggiero (1957–2007) was a brilliant accelerator physicist, an inventive researcher, a great collaborator, an excellent mentor, and a true gentleman. We here take a look at Francesco’s scientific work, and highlight some of his contributions to accelerator physics. More details can be found in the slides presented by the speakers of the Francesco Ruggiero Memorial Symposium held at CE...

Penicillin Chapter 13 1957