My Forty Years in Studying and Helping Family Businesses

My Forty Years on His Shoulders

Gödel's legacy is still very much in evidence. We will not attempt to properly discuss the full impact of his work and all of the ongoing important research programs that it suggests. This would require a book length manuscript. Indeed, there are several books discussing the Gödel legacy from many points of view, including, for example, [Wa87], [Wa96], [Da05], and the historically comprehensive...

Forty years in cardiology.

ELECTION to this lectureship has brought me an honour which I rank highly, in that I am aware of the acknowledged distinction of my predecessors and which laid claim to their appointment to this office. The invitation has also placed upon my shoulders a heavy responsibility, namely to discharge my duty as creditably as they did, and has planted in me a fear lest I fail to do so. I mean, however...

My forty-three years with in situ small and large blood vessels.

In this review, I chronicle some of my research on small and large blood vessels in vivo. This research was a direct outgrowth of research conducted by my advisor, Maurice B. Visscher, and his research was in turn greatly influenced by one of his advisors, Ernest H. Starling. My research was also stimulated and influenced by the tremendous activity in cardiac surgery and, to a lesser extent, po...

Forty Years of X-Ray Binaries

In 2012 it was forty years ago that the discovery of the first X-ray binary Centaurus X-3 became known. That same year it was discovered that apart from the High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) there are also Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), and that Cygnus X-1 is most probably a black hole. By 1975 also the new class of Be/X-ray binaries was discovered. After this it took 28 years before ESAs INTE...

O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"