Marshall Stoneham (1940–2011)

Nonnormality of Stoneham constants

This paper examines “Stoneham constants,” namely real numbers of the form αb,c = ∑ n≥1 1/(c nbc n ), for coprime integers b ≥ 2 and c ≥ 2. These are of interest because, according to previous studies, αb,c is known to be bnormal, meaning that every m-long string of base-b digits appears in the base-b expansion of the constant with precisely the limiting frequency b−m. So, for example, the const...

Justin Marshall

Justin Marshall is Professor of Neurobiology and Marine Biology at the University of Queensland in Australia within The Queensland Brain Institute. He can be labelled a visual ecologist as he studies comparative eye design and how this is guided by the physics of light. He has co-written a book called “Visual Ecology”, co-edited a book called “Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments”, is co-...

Peter Marshall

This paper outlines and analyses the behaviours of small and medium enterprises with respect to the evaluation of electronic commerce investments, and the subsequent realisation of the anticipated benefits from those investments. The responses of executives who participated in the study suggested that on-going involvement in electronic commerce did not come cheaply. Nonetheless, our study sugge...

Joseph Marshall Flint

Marshall Nirenberg 1927–2010

of the true giants in the history of science. Marshall Nirenberg, the man who deciphered the genetic code, was taken from us by a rare neuroendocrine cancer. He was 82 years old. I was one of the many scientists who had the good fortune to be trained in Marshall's lab, to be exposed to his brilliance , to be instilled with his values, and to be inspired by his enthusiasm for the discovery of im...