Ralph Henderson Boots. 1968 - 1891. In Memoriam

David Willis Wilson Henderson, 1903-1968.

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

Ralph Bergmann

An assumption commonly unchallenged in Social Media isthat its open nature leads to a representative view of the world. Thereare (at least) two issues with this assumption. The first issue is that suchrepresentativeness may be harmful and may contradict social principles,e.g. non-discrimination against women or minorities. The second issue isthat algorithms that work on such...

Otto Mangold (1891-1962)

Otto Mangold [5] was an early-twentieth-century embryologist who specialized in the development of amphibian embryos. A major emphasis of his research was refining the concept of the organizer [6], now referred to as embryonic induction [7]. He was born on 4 November 1891 in Auenstein, Germany, and came from what Viktor Hamburger [8], a colleague and personal acquaintance, described as ?peasant...