On His Own

Did Menzel Paint His Own Babinski Sign?

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

Carmine Melino: a Universe by his own.

Carl Djerassi: in his own words.

In honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Carl Djerassi, J. I. Seeman has assembled a collection of poignant quotes and excerpts from Djerassi's writings which embody his remarkable life experiences, his philosophies of life, and his unique personality.

Gilbert Stork: in his own words and in the musings of his friends.

s 1945, 39, 2991(5). Figure 7. Carl Djerassi, learning how to drive a tractor in Tarkio, Missouri, 1941. Photo courtesy C. Djerassi. . Angewandte And Finally 3014 www.angewandte.org 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3012 – 3023 “And then, as I just had thrown it in there, and it fumed furiously and red fumes of who knows what, nitrous oxide of vario...

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen seen through his own eyes. A review of his memoirs.

In the course of the century which has elapsed since the discovery of the leprosy bacillus in 1873 by C. H. Armauer Hansen (1841-1912 ), several biographers and medical historians have stressed the importance of this event. 2 The life span of C. H . Armauer Hansen covers a period when bacteriology was a growing specialty in medical science. Earlier suggestions that certain diseases might be ass...