MURRA 1916-2006

Sculpted landscapes: art & place in Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006.

Perhaps the world's first peace garden, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America and reveal the complex interrelations between art and place. This essay uses the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a lens through which to explore how art and place have intersected over time. It explores how communities have negotiated questions of national, ethnic, and American i...

Francis Crick 1916–2004

In March 1953, 31 years after Howard Carter’s astonishing first glimpse into Tutankhamun's tomb, an even more golden treasure was found. Francis Crick and Jim Watson shared that moment of discovery as they looked, for the first time, into the heart of all living things. They saw the structure of DNA, and their vision became the big bang of modern biology. Francis’ life in research began inauspi...

Frederick M. Allen, 1916

The Medical Annual, 1916

The contributors are all men well known in their respective specialisms, e.g.. YVyllys Andrews of Chicago on Abdominal Surgery; F. J. Charteris of Glasgow 011 Therapeutics; Blumfield of St. George's on Anesthetics; Sir Leonard Rogers, f.k.S , on Tropical Diseases; E. \V. Goodall 011 Acute Infectious Diseases; Robert Hutchison on Gastro-Intestinal Disorders: and Graham Little on Skin Diseases. M...

Francis Crick (1916–2004)

It has often been asserted that the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 was the starting point for molecular biology. Whether or not this is true, it cannot be doubted that Francis Crick became a dominant figure in the early years of molecular biology. In those years there was a continual interaction between theory and experiment, in which Crick paid a leading role. I was in Cambridge at ...