Obituary on Karl Henrik Borch

The life and career of Karl H. Borch

Developments in insurance economics over the past few decades provide a vivid illustration of the interplay between abstract theorizing and applied research. In any account of these developments, the specific early contributions of Karl Henrik Borch, from the late fifties on, are bound to stand out. Karl Borch’s life was eventful – sometimes adventurous. Reality, however, was neither easy, nor ...

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Thermodynamic Properties of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) Michael W. Finnis1,, T. Davey1*, A.I. Duff 1,2, T.A. Mellan 1 1Imperial College London, Thomas Young Centre, Dept. of Materials and Dept. of Physics, London, UK 2Hartree Centre, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Scientific Computing Department, Warrington, UK *Present address: Department of Finemechanics, Fracture and Reliability Rese...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

Karl Popper on Theory Creation

The very title of my paper may cause many eyebrows to be raised. For anyone who is familiar with Popper’s philosophy of science knows well that he distinguished clearly between two types of historical processes, namely, the process of conceiving a new scientific theory or idea and the methods of examining it logically, and asserted that the task of the philosophers is not to ponder on these act...