Leopold Gmelin: 200th anniversary stamp

Charles Darwin – The 200th Anniversary

Every age in the history of civilized men was dominated by a specific set of ideas or ideologies. However, Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) must be certainly mentioned as the top of the list. The year 2009 marks the 200 anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the Origin’s publication. Scientists, universities, natural history museums, and other sorts of people, various...

The Rhode Island Medical Society's 200th anniversary.

The 200th Anniversary of the founding of the Belfast Medical Society

In 1806 Belfast was a small town at the mouth of the river Lagan, with a population of about 20,000. The population of Ireland at that time was about 5.5 million, which is very similar to the population of the whole island today, so the influence of Belfast and its citizens would have been proportionately much less than now. There was no general hospital (the small fever hospital had opened in ...

Cholesterol: Revisiting its fluorescent journey on 200th anniversary of Chevruel's ``cholesterine''

The legacy of Micheal Chevruel’s discovery of “cholesterine” as a non-saponifiable lipid from gall stones has ignited the imagination and research of countless minds for over two centuries now. In this review, we have provided a brief chronicle of the early history of cholesterol research which paved the way to present day understanding of membrane biology. We have discussed the properties and ...

Leopold Schenk (1840-1902).

Leopold Schenk attained international fame by his contributions to the science of embryology. The first chair of embryology in any medical school was established for him in the University of Vienna. This article briefly describes his life and his work.