Pioneers in Optics: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899)

Friedrich August Genth aus Wächersbach und die Entdeckung der ersten NiO-Kristalle am Marburger chemischen Institut unter Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.

Pioneers in Medical Imaging: Honoring the Memory of Robert F. Wagner.

Pioneers in biomedical optics: special section honoring professor Ashley J. Welch, University of Texas at Austin.

Born and bred in Ft. Worth, Texas, he spent his entire career in the Lone Star State. A.J. graduated from Texas Technological College now Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, with his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1955. He was raised primarily by his mother who early on instilled in him the value of a good education. With obvious talent in science and math, engineering was the thin...

Pioneers in medicine.

Probably the most striking feature of those involved with the EGP is their apparent willingness to make do with what they have to make it a success. The laboratory may be missing the sophisticated instrumentation that one would expect from a similar facility in a richer Western country, but it is definitely rich with the excitement of being a pioneer and with the keenness to improvise and solve...

Pioneers in Neurology

The nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest neuroanatomists of all times. Amongst them is the largely forgotten Heinrich Sachs, a student of Carl Wernicke in Breslau. Sachs was a German neurologist, born in 1863 in Halberstadt a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the district of Harz. Despite his upbringing in a lower-income background, he was able to study m...