One hundred years of the Journal of Genetics

One hundred years of journal publication.

AJP centennial. One hundred years of journal publication.

centennial of the entire APS family of journals. APS was one of the earliest national biological societies in America and also one of the first to have its own journal (4). Although for its first sixteen years AJP was owned by its editor, William T. Porter, Porter published the journal at the request of APS and under contract to APS. By 1914, APS had assumed full ownership and management. The h...

One Hundred Years of Uncertainty

UST about a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein began writing a paper that secured his place in the pantheon of humankind's greatest thinkers. With his discovery of special relativity, Einstein upended the familiar, thousands-yearold conception of space and time. To be sure, even a century later, not everyone has fully embraced Einstein's discovery. Nevertheless, say "Einstein" and most everyone...

One hundred years of virology.

One hundred years ago a young Russian scientist, Dimitri Ivanovsky (1864 to 1920), presented a paper before the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg in which he stated that "the sap of leaves infected with tobacco mosaic disease retains its infectious properties even after filtration through Chamberland filter candles" (10). This observation suggested a disease agent smaller than any known bef...

One hundred years of hormones.

In June 1905, Ernest Starling, a professor of physiology at University College London, UK, first used the word ‘hormone’ in one of four Croonian Lectures— ‘On the chemical correlation of the functions of the body’—delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Starling defined the word, derived from the Greek meaning ‘to arouse or excite’, as “the chemical messengers which speeding fro...