Paul C. Samson (1905-1982)

Paul C. Samson, M.D., 1905-1982. Part I. His contributions to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Paul C. Lauterbur - Nobel Lecture

The title is not a tribute to some trendy hybrid field, but an introduction to a lecture on a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine that is shared by a chemist and a physicist. Few events could illustrate more clearly the blending both at the boundaries, and sometimes through the bodies, of our disciplines. For that is what they are, disciplines, not natural categories with rigid boundaries to...

Joseph C. Risser Sr., 1892–1982

This biographical sketch of Joseph C. Risser Sr. corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: The Iliac Apophysis: An Invaluable Sign in the Management of Scoliosis, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1096-z. Joseph C. Risser was born August 6, 1892, in Des Moines, Iowa. He earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1923 and served his residency at the New York Orthopedic Hospi...

Samson Raphael Hirsch

... "Religion allied to progress": [the leaders of Reform have] with undaunted courage embroidered [this slogan] in scintillating colours on to the banner of our present-day religious struggles, that the educated "progressive" sons and daughters of the new age might rally to this new flag of the prophet and advance with it unhindered. How leaderless was this new congregation of prophets before ...

Samson Saneblidze and Ronald Umble

An associahedral set is a combinatorial object generated by Stasheff associahedra {Kn} and equipped with appropriate face and degeneracy operators. Associahedral sets are similar in many ways to simplicial or cubical sets. In this paper we give a formal definition of an associahedral set, discuss some naturally occurring examples and construct an explicit geometric diagonal ∆ : C∗(Kn) −→ C∗(Kn)...