Professor Walter Simon

Remembering Professor Walter A. Scott

Walter Scott was a Biochemistry professor at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine and a leading figure in the field of HIV drug resistance. His untimely passing in January 2013 marked a loss for his family, as well as for students and colleagues who knew him as a dedicated and unassuming scholar, and a lively scientist with a great sense of humor.

Letter from Professor Simon Bearder

Professor Simon Newcomb as an Astronomer.

MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for review should be sent to the Editor of SCIENCE, Garrison-onHudson, N. Y. PROIFESSOR SIMON NEWCOMB AS AN ASTRONOMER PROFESSOR NEWCOMB has narrated at considerable length the personal incidents of his scientific career in his book "The Reminiscences of an Astronomer," and to that source the reader desirousi of knowing them may be referre...

LIMIT PRESERVING FULL EMBEDDINGS Dedicated to Professor Walter Tholen on his 60 th birthday

We prove that every small strongly connected category k has a full embedding preserving all limits existing in k into a category of unary universal algebras. The number of unary operations can be restricted to |mor k | in case when k has a terminal object and only preservation of limits over finitely many objects is desired. And all limits existing in such a category k are preserved by a full e...

Sketch : W Grey Walter 1 Walter

Nobel-winning Sir Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War wrote a chapter on the "wizards" who had helped Britain win the war in the air by the development and use of radar. William Grey Walter (1910-1977) was one of those young wizards. He used his experience to design and construct a life-like robot with a nonlinear dynamic brain, which offered an existence proof that brains ...