Louis Girard 1911-20031

Girard Couples of Quantales

We introduce the concept of a Girard couple, which consists of two (not necessarily unital) quantales linked by a strong form of duality. The two basic examples of Girard couples arise in the study of endomorphism quantales and of the spectra of operator algebras. We construct, for an arbitrary sup-lattice S, a Girard quantale whose right-sided part is isomorphic to S.

The Girard-Reynolds Isomorphism

ion Theorem x1 : A1, . . . , xn : An ` t : B in F2 ⇒ (x1, x1) ∈ A ∗‡ 1 , . . . , (xn, x ′ n) ∈ A∗‡ n ` (|t|, |t|′) ∈ B∗‡ in P2

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005)

The editorial board lost a real soul mate when Maclyn McCarty passed away on January 2nd at age 93. While attending the theater with friends, one of the many activities that he enjoyed, he collapsed. “Dr. Mac” was revered worldwide for his remarkable experiments that led to the identification of DNA as the genetic material. This totally unanticipated discovery, and the revolutionary 1944 paper ...

Simon Flexner, 1911

Francis Galton (1822-1911)

Sir Francis Galton [5] was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of statistics, experimental psychology and biometry. In the history of biology, Galton is widely regarded as the originator of the early twentieth century eugenics movement [6]. Galton published influential writings on nature versus nurturein human pers...