Norman Edwin Gibbons 1906-1977

Gibbons

What is a gibbon? Gibbons (Hylobatidae) are small arboreal apes that are predominantly found in tropical and sub-tropical forests of South East Asia, South China, Bangladesh and North-East India. True brachiators — animals that swing from tree to tree — these apes are often described as ‘acrobats of the forest’, leaping up to 8 metres between branches and reaching speeds of approximately 56 kil...

Norman Geschwind

Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was born in New York City on 8 January, 1926, where his parents, Hannah and Morris, had arrived from Polish Galicia 20 years before [4]. When Norman was four, his father died of pneumonia. Despite difficulties, Hannah sent Norman and his brother Irving to the Hebrew Institute of Borough Park, where he never mastered Hebrew [2]. His later years at the Boy’s High Scho...

Alj Edwin Milgrom

binding site of the AFP gene promoter in one (2 ). AFP is a widely used tumor marker. Although HPAFP is a rare disorder, it needs to be considered and differentiated from tumors to avoid inappropriate explorations and treatment decisions. We present a simple test based on restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis for screening of HPAFP mutations. This test can be used in patients...

Edwin Powell Hubble

Gibbons-Hawking M-branes

We present new M2 and M5 brane solutions in M-theory based on transverse Gibbons-Hawking spaces. These solutions provide realizations of fully localized type IIA D2/D6 and NS5/D6 brane intersections. One novel feature of these solutions is that the metric function depend on more than two transverse coordinates (unlike all the other previous known solutions). All the solutions have eight preserv...