Robert D. Tollison: A remembrance

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The portrait of Robert Kerr (d. 1824).

The importance of Dr. Robert Kerr in Canadian history is not large, but he played a significant role in the early years of what is now Ontario. Though his Canadian years were spent largely in active military service and, after his discharge, at Kingston and in the Niagara peninsula, nevertheless, in the compact and sparse settlements and posts of the times he was widely known and influential. M...

In remembrance.

“John was an inspiring teacher and experimentalist. His educational passion was creating hands-on experiments built from ordinary parts you can find at any hardware store, what he lovingly called ‘mulch,’” said MIT senior lecturer in physics, and former King student, Peter Dourmashkin ’76 (physics), ’78 (math), PhD ’84. “He was MITx before MITx.” King was born in London and educated in France, ...

Leo Szilard: a personal remembrance.

SINCE retiring as a full-time faculty member about ment of this building. Their plan was to study mutation in bacteria, and they looked for methods to measure 10 years ago, I have occupied myself with writing chronicles of past experiences. The first was an account mutation rates. At Cold Spring Harbor they had encountered Jacques of the advances made in the elucidation of gene expression and i...

Review of Convex Polyhedra by A . D . Alexandrov Robert Connelly