Professor Raymond Oliver, 1921–1976

Professor Sir Raymond 'Bill' Hoffenberg: a celebration and thanksgiving.

The different names and titles Bill had are a way of revealing a variety of relationships. If one knew him from childhood, he was Billie. Army and university friends left off the diminutive; he was Bill, plain and simple. To his patients he was Dr Hoffenberg. To his students he was Hoff (not to his face) and Prof (to his face). To Professor was added, in due course, Dean and then President – ti...

Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Professor and Autocrat Addresses Medical Matters

Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician, poet and novelist, was a frequent and at times outspoken commentator on the practice of medicine. His speeches and writings reveal Holmes's remarkable wit and facility in addressing such topics as medical education, drug prescription and medicine in society. Although delivered in the previous century his comments often seem to retain remarkable relevance in...

Die Autoren Oliver Berthold Oliver Günther

RFID: Consumer Fears and Consumer Protection RFID introduction is a hotly debated public policy issue. The technology enables physical environments to become more interactive and supportive by tagging each item with a chip that wirelessly communicates with a service-enriched backend infrastructure. Based on a number of user studies at Humboldt-Universität and at the Auto-ID Center, this article...

Raymond Hu

Oliver Hobert

Oliver Hobert is an Associate Professor at Columbia University Medical School in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has obtained his Diploma degree in Biochemistry with Gerhard Krauss at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, and his PhD with Axel Ullrich at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Mart...