Standing on the shoulders of giants

Standing on the shoulders of giants

In this editorial, the author explains that the journal Temperature stands on the shoulders of giants-prominent scientists of the past and current members of the Temperature community. Temperature also uses the best tools, such as Google Scholar profiles. The editorial includes a new puzzle: why does warm water freeze faster than cold water?

Are We Really Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?

About 3000 designs for bulbs were tested between 1878 and 1880 before the first light bulb was invented in Edison’s lab. The tests include experiments with several materials for filaments such as cotton, linen thread, and wood splints that are reported in his first patent. However, months later the material that was proven to be successful was carbonized bamboo filament that could last for more...

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On the Shoulders of Giants.

These are not the words of a faint hearted poet but of a person that the field of medicine perhaps deems itself indebted to. They were written by Ibn e Sina in his medical poem in a time when medical practices in Europe were speckled with gruesome and agonizing treatments as they were considered at the time. In his words he reflects upon the management of the psychological distress an ailing pe...

On the Shoulders of Giants

molecular lesions. In his account of the description of Bruton's agammaglobulinemia and DiGeorge syndrome, Dr Clark provides a counterbalance in the clear clinical and scientific thinking which led to their description. The book is not all history however, and we are brought immediately up-to-date with the progress in gene therapy for ADA-SCID and the therapeutic prospects for the future. The c...