Spencer Wells — Surgeon RN [Abridged]

Spencer Wells, the Life and Work of a Victorian Surgeon

been teaching anatomy for some two years, but Morgan immediately took it upon himself to arrange the opening of a medical school attached to the College of Philadelphia, without any consultation with his erstwhile fellow student. Morgan's remarkable inaugural lecture in May 1765, A Discourse upon the Institution ofMedical Schools in America was the climax of his career, and his plans and recomm...

Off the Beaten Path: An Interview with Spencer Wells

S pencer Wells has this geneticist’s dream job. He transits the globe, collecting DNA samples, building collaborations, and orchestrating what may be the most extensive and fascinating project on human origins yet, sponsored by one of the most respected institutions in the US—The National Geographic Society. There, Wells holds the oxymoronically named post of ‘‘Explorer-inResidence’’ and runs t...

Kerry Spencer

The fall of tsarism in Russia in 1917 was the culmination of many factors. It is perhaps widely noted that Nicholas II was not suited to his role as Tsar, mainly due to his character and personality. Resentment of his wife and her involvement with the mystical Rasputin was also widespread and helped contribute to the collapse of the monarchy. Also the state of the country during World War One l...

Spencer-Attix Cavity Theory

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Let X be a smooth, projective algebraic variety over an algebraically closed field k, and let H(X) denote a Weil cohomology theory. The existence of algebraic cycles on X×X inducing as correspondences the various Künneth projectors π : H(X) → H (X) is one of the standard conjectures of Grothendieck, [8], [9]. It is known in general only for the cases i = 0, 1, 2d − 1, 2d where d = dimX. The pur...