Scientific Centenaries in 1933

Styles of scientific thought: the German genetics community, 1900–1933

difficult task, or was it more an accident of co-terminosity? The anti-psychiatrists who adopted his themes, the "Great Confinement" and so forth, happened to be in the ascendant at the time (the early 1960s) and embraced his anti-institutional analysis with perfervid zeal despite the confusions engendered in both directions. There seems to have been little acknowledgement either that asylumdom...

Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others: 1933–1945

Murderous science is a short, complex book with an importance that extends far beyond the purview of World War Two historians. Muller-Hill's contention is that anthropologists, geneticists, and psychiatrists created, supported, and implemented Nazi racial-inferiority laws and policies. Moreover, there is a direct line from the 1933 job-exclusion laws that saw German scientific and other institu...

Canynge Hall 1933-1969

ust over thirty-five years ago the newly formed Univer-Department of Preventive Medicine was opened at anynge Hall, a former hotel (Plate V), by the then 'hister of Health, Sir Hilton Young. He described the ?Ccasion as the celebration of a marriage of the City Bristol with the fair nymph of knowledge, and Dr. anley Badock, in proposing the vote of thanks, hoped at it would be a lasting and hap...

Michael Heidelberger, 1933

Dmd053223 1923..1933

Mefenamic acid (MFA), a carboxylic acid–containing nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, is metabolized into the chemically-reactive MFA-1-O-acyl-glucuronide (MFA-1-O-G), MFA-acyl-adenylate (MFAAMP), and the MFA-S-acyl-coenzyme A (MFA-CoA), all of which are electrophilic and capable of acylating nucleophilic sites on biomolecules. In this study, we investigate the nonenzymatic ability of each MF...