Professor Henri Luc (Paris)

Henri Poincaré, theoretical physics, and relativity theory in Paris

In studies of the emergence of relativity theory, historians have sought to characterize the reception of relativist ideas with respect to national communities of physicists and mathematicians, in an effort to reveal underlying features of these communities, such as their openness to new ideas, and their capacity for change. Stimulating this activity are the basic publication counts, that tell ...

Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle

sia. Nicolle's many accomplishments include the discovery that epidemic typhus is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanis corporis), discovery of the phenomenon of inap-parent infection, and possibly the first isolation of human influenza virus after experimental transmission. Nicolle made many other fundamental contributions to knowledge of infectious diseases. This year is the centenary o...

Editorial Luc

Professor Pierre Budin (1846-1907) of Paris, and modern perinatal care.

Correspondence to: Professor P M Dunn. Pierre Constant Budin was born in Enancourtle-Sec near Beauvais in 1846. His parents were farmers. After schooling at the College of Beauvais and at the Lycee Napoleon where he obtained a baccalaureate in philosophy, he studied medicine for four years in Paris. There he came under the influence of the great Dr Tarnier, and on qualifying in 1871, became his...

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