Otto Kahn-Freund: A Weimar Life

Freund-rubin Revisited

We utilise the duality between M theory and Type IIA string theory to show the existence of Freund-Rubin compactifications of M theory on 7-manifolds with singularities supporting chiral fermions. This leads to a concrete way to study phenomenologically interesting quantum gravity vacua using a holographically dual three dimensional field theory. bacharya, denef, hofman, [email protected]...

Shakespeare in the Weimar Republic

Harold A. Kahn (1920–2009): A Remembrance of a Life Devoted to Public Health

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2009. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work i...

Otto Loewi

The end of the 19th century was the starting point of many discoveries in the field of the neurophysiology. At that time, only basic technical approaches were available, and new discoveries depended on few results and lots of deductions. Furthermore, the scientific community was often debating on theoretical speculations and was often divided. I have chosen to present a German neurophysiologist...

A life devoted to aquatic ecology: a tribute to Otto Kinne.

Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Otto Kinne passed away at age 91 on 3 March 2015 in Oldendorf, Germany, after a prolonged period of deteriorating health. True to his spirit of hard work and independence, the driving forces throughout his long career, he did not go into well-deserved retirement but stayed until the end at the helm of Inter-Research: the highly successful, unique institution he founded in...