Mitchell B. Lerner (ed.), A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson

Aaron B. Lerner, 1920-2007.

Lerner, called “The Bunsen Burner” by his high school classmates, was a scientist’s scientist. Born in 1921, he later took Bunsen as his middle name. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, both in 1945. In 1952, he moved to Oregon with his friend and colleague Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, who was the newly appointed head of the University of Oregon Medical School’s Div...

A. B. Mitchell, O.B.E., D.L., F.R.C.S.I., M.P

H recent death of A. B. Mitchell (affectionatel) knowil to all old Queenismeni as A. B.") has severed a link wlhich bounid successive generations of medical aduates to Belfast for half a century. Remembered chiefly for his skill as a geon, he rendered conspicuous service to the Belfast School of 'Medicine in fny directions. He was one of the first to Visualise a hospital colony in the unds surr...

The Aaron B. Lerner Symposium. June 22, 1985.

The Discovery of a Planetary Companion to 16 Cygni B

High precision radial velocity observations of the solar-type star 16 Cygni B (HR7504, HD186427), taken at McDonald Observatory and at Lick Observatory, have each independently discovered periodic radial-velocity variations indicating the presence of a Jovian-mass companion to this star. The orbital fit to the combined McDonald and Lick data gives a period of 800.8 days, a velocity amplitude (K...

for The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed

Descartes, in the Meditations (1641), notes that "there are only two ways of proving the existence of God, one by means of his effects, and the other by means of his nature or essence.” (AT VII, 120). The latter, a priori path, represented paradigmatically by the Ontological Argument of Saint Anselm (and its offspring, including Descartes’s own version), has perennial appeal to a certain sort o...