Robert Treat Paine (1933–2016)

Robert Treat Paine III (1933-2016).

Robert Treat Paine III passed away June 13 in Seattle surrounded by family and friends. RTP, as he was known, was an emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, where he developed a career that helped define the field of community ecology. Ever an avid naturalist who paid close attention to the specifics of a bird song or a starfish’s diet, RTP’s best-known contributions were the concep...

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mother and her offspring include high rates of school dropout, low-birth-weight infants, poor health and poverty.4 In addition, teenage childbearing results in considerable financial costs to taxpayers and society.5 A significant amount of attention and energy has been devoted to the prevention of teenage pregnancy through, for example, school-based programs to increase condom use, sexuality ed...

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man ( 1792 )

To George Washington: President Of The United States Of America Sir, I present you a small treatise in defence of those principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old, is the prayer of Sir, You...

Robert Insall

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

Robert Koch