Sport and Warfare (1912)

Sport, nationalism and the early Chinese republic 1912-1927.

Sport development had been influenced by military, economic, political and social chaos. The period 1912 to 1927 was a tumultuous time for China, fragmented and ruled as it was by an assortment of regional military dictators or warlords. The first Chinese Republic was established in 1912 and soon collapsed, in 1916, when the first president Yuan Shih-kai died. National government ceased to exis...

Michael Abercrombie (1912-1979).

Richard Doll 1912–2005

the differences of organic production. However, the exclusion of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers from organic systems is fundamental. Given this, the authors asked, why did the magnitude of differences in species density and abundance vary so much between the different groups they looked at? One factor may be the differential impacts of timing and special scales on the colonization traits ...

Merck's Annual Report, 1912

Richard Doll (1912?2005)

Richard Doll was an epidemiologist and public figure in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Working primarily at the University of Oxford [2], in Oxford, England, Doll established a definitive correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Furthermore, Doll?s work helped legitimize epidemiology as a scientific discipline. Doll?s research also helped establish modern guidelin...