Robindronath Tagore (1861-1941)

Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum

The digital edition of Rabindranath Tagore, Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum aims to encompass all of Rabindranath’s literary works in Bengali and English. This edition is an extremely interesting case study for the technical and logistical complexity of the task it sets out to achieve, which involved the development of customised technology and a visualisation strategy to engage the reader wit...

[Cayetano Heredia (1797-1861)].

En la historia de la medicina peruana podemos encontrar diversos ejemplos de destacados científicos, ilustres divulgadores de la ciencia, devotos practicantes de su arte, muchos de los cuales han recibido público reconocimiento por su obra científica. También encontramos aquellos que, paralelo a su ejercicio profesional, han tenido una activa vida ciudadana e intelectual, por lo cual también ha...

The Election of Tagore Law Professor

Op-brai160078 1855..1861

1 Spinal Cord Injury Centre Balgrist, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK 3 Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK 4 Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cogni...

Victor Jollos ( 1887 - 1941 )

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...