SIDNEY ISAAC KORNHAUSER 1887-1959

Testimony of Sidney G

My name is Sidney Winter. I am the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where I spent 15 years in the Management Department. I am trained as an economist, and I previously was a tenured faculty member in two economics departments, those of Yale University (13 years) and the University of Michigan (8). One of my central r...

Sidney Winter Lecture Series

Available online 19 August 2010

Sidney Herbert Watkins (1912–1993)

The passing of Joshua Leibowitz on 10 July 1993 closed a long and distinguished chapter in the history of medicine. His particular blend of medical, linguistic and historical scholarship was representative of that Baltic-Jewish tradition of learning which contributed so much to European culture before its dispersal and decimation by the Nazi horror. He will be widely mourned by the history of m...

Sidney garfield-a personal recollection.

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...