Richard Abel Musgrave 1910 – 2007

Comment on "Blend of Fiscal and Monetary Policies" by Richard Musgrave

Richard Pearson Strong and the Manchurian epidemic of pneumonic plague, 1910-1911.

HE Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and famine afflicted the Central Provinces. The Manchurian plague claimed some fifty thousand lives in four months, and the famine took thousands more. Not all the hungry died, but no on...

Lobar pneumonia treated by Musgrave Park physicians

In the decade 1935-45 the treatment of lobar pneumonia in the developed and warring world underwent a series of evolutions-anti-sera, specific anti-sera, refinement of sulpha drugs, sulpha and anti-sera, the introduction of penicillin for bacteriology, then ophthalmology, and then for penicillin-sensitive bacterial infections such as lobar pneumonia with its many Cooper types of Streptococcus p...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Walter Wunderlich ( 1910 – 1998 )

Walter Wunderlich was one of the most influential Austrian kinematicians in the 20th century. He wrote more than 200 scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, geometry and kinematics. Because of his influence, kinematic geometry is still an important subject in the curricula of geometry teachers’ education in Austria.