Pál Kelemen (1894-1993)

Edward Joseph Conway, 1894-1968

Ernest Basil Verney, 1894-1967.

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Sir James Paget (1814-1894).

Sir James Paget (Fig. 1) formed with William Fergusson (1808–1862) and Sir Benjamin Brodie (1783–1762) a triumvirate of surgical ‘greats’ in England in the nineteenth century w1x. Paget was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, and until 20 yr of age had not ventured further than a few miles from his birthplace. His father, Samuel, was a prosperous businessman who unfortunately went bankrup...

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

Driven by both empirical knowledge and mathematical reasoning, Helmholtz made extraordinary contributions to natural philosophy, including both imaging and vision science. Fundamentally important examples include the Helmholtz theorem and the Helmholtz equation, which describe vector and scalar properties of light fields. The first informs us that fields are derived from point and current sourc...

The surgeon's surgeon. Theodor Billroth 1829–1894

and with the new social order associated with industrialization and urban life. He understands these attitudes to be derivative of humanitarian sentiments displaced upon animals, the distinction between man and beast having been eroded by physiological and taxonomic studies in the eighteenth century. While his interpretation appears reasonable and persuasive, it is really not adequate to explai...