Magnetic observations at De Bilt, May 28–30, 1919

Roy J. Britten, 1919-2012: our early years at Caltech.

R oy Britten died in Costa Mesa, California on January 21, 2012, of pancreatic cancer at age 92. His work in the 1960s, in which he used renaturation kinetics to provide a quantitative image of the single-copy and repetitive sequence content of animal genomes, was of gigantic intellectual import, and it essentially built the ground floor of the edifice that we call genomics today. He was electe...

The Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, France 1914-1919.

In 1915, under the aegis of the French Red Cross, volunteer medical women from the Scottish Women's Hospital Service for Foreign Service established a hospital at Royaumont Abbey in France, to treat casualties of the First World War. By working as a team comprised of radiologists, bacteriologists and surgeons, they were able to combat gas gangrene and record remarkable results. The circumstance...

Op-brhe140373 1917..1919

In recent years the scientific community has shown renewed interest in DISH. The article by Yaniv et al. [1] in this issue of Rheumatology describes the natural evolution of DISH, providing important new insights into this condition. The article presents a study that used CT, a highly sensitive three-dimensional imaging modality for assessing new bone formation, to identify DISH patients and ex...

Observations of Solar Coronal Magnetic

This review discusses methods for determining solar coro-nal magnetic elds, with an emphasis on radio measurements of eld strengths in solar active regions.

Ambulance Diary for 1919