Prof. J E Baldwin: Jackson Gwilt Medal and Gift

A.W. Liley Medal 2001 awarded to prof. Wolfgang Holzgreve.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/fdt Prof. Wolfgang Holzgreve was awarded the A.W. Liley Medal on April 18th, 2001, at the opening ceremony of the Annual Congress of the International Society of the Fetus as a Patient. Wolfgang’s early medical career was spent at Münster, Germany. Although Wolfgang may seem good-natured, his conflagrations with his mentor Prof. Fritz Beller are len...

Acceptance of the 2008 Henry Baldwin Ward Medal: balancing the tripod.

Acceptance of the 2009 Henry Baldwin Ward Medal: the accidental parasitologist.

Members of the Society, President Conn, colleagues, friends, and particularly students, the Ward Medal recipient, from Clarke Read onward, traditionally recounts how their career was shaped. A decade ago, in a crumbling Kona hotel, the ASP’s own tattooed lady, Janine Caira, opened her Ward Medal address with: ‘‘To all future Ward Medalists, many of whom I trust are sitting in the audience out t...

Lamarckian Evolution , The Baldwin E ectand Function

We compare two forms of hybrid genetic search. The rst uses Lamarckian evolution, while the second uses a related method where local search is employed to change the tness of strings, but the acquired improvements do not change the genetic encoding of the individual. The latter search method exploits the Baldwin eeect. By modeling a simple genetic algorithm we show that functions exist where si...

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