Spitsbergen in 1914

Dmd053199 1914..1922

Naturally occurring furanocoumarin compounds psoralen (PRN) and isopsoralen (IPRN) are bioactive constituents found in herbaceous plants. They are widely used as active ingredients in several Chinese herbal medicines. In this study, the CYP1A2 inhibitory potential of PRN and IPRN was investigated in rats in vitro and in vivo as well as in human liver microsomes. Both compounds exhibited reversi...

Max Perutz (1914–2002)

Become a scientist, Ernest Rutherford would urge his friends, for then you will never be old, you will remain all your life a child at play. So it proved for the evergreen Max Perutz, who did his last experiment only weeks before he died at the fine age of eighty-seven. Perutz embraced Noël Coward's dictum that 'work is fun, work is much more fun than fun'. In an eventful life, beset in its ear...

An Arctic char observed in a glacial Spitsbergen river

An anadromous Arctic char (male) was recorded in southwestern Spitsbergen, in a very muddy glacial river, in August 2008. This is apparently the first specimen of this species observed in such an unfavourable habitat in Svalbard. Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus), the only freshwater native fish in Svalbard, is rather common (occurring in more than 100 lakes and watercourses) and is differentiat...

Methanogenic archaea in Arctic soils from Spitsbergen, Norway (78°N)

Thacker's Medical Directory, 1914

The new edition of this useful Directory is an improvement on the 1st Edition. It is divided into several parts. An introduction of 136 pages deals with the regulations for entrance to the I.M.S. and Ii.A.M.C. and for medical degrees at British and Indian Universities. Much of this information may not be needed by the practitioner but it is information not easily obtainable elsewhere and will b...