T. Mark Florence

Lights in the shadows: Florence Nightingale and others who made their mark.

Florence Nightingale, the 'lady with the lamp' became the image of 'heroic womanhood' (Bostridge 2004) when she returned from the Crimean War an iconic figure and ever since she has remained fated to wear the mantel of nursings' leading light. But she wasn't the only woman who made their mark or who undertook to risk their live caring for the sick and injured, wounded and dying in the Crimea. S...

J/t) Results from Mark Iii+

Measurements of the two-body decays of the J/$ into vector and pseudoscalar meson pairs are presented. Using the measured branching ratios, a phenomenological model of J/G d eta y s indicates that the 7 and 7’ are composed only of light and strange quarks, without a gluonium contribution in the $ wavefunction. A measurement of J/+ -+ yr+rrr-n+ris presented. The fr (1285) is observed and its spi...

Florence Nightingale

MARCEL FLORKIN, A history ofbiochemistry. Part III. History ofthe identification ofthe sources offree energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25). Professor Florkin and Professor Elmer H. Stotz are editors of Comprehensive biochemistry, a 33-volume work still being published. This is volume 31 and the second of fou...

The Florence Declaration

Over 1,650 participants from 94 countries came together in Florence from 9-14 November 2014 for the 18 General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 1300 technical proposals and the exchange between heritage specialists have culminated in the following Declaration of principles and recommendations on the value of cultural heritage and landscapes for promoting pe...

Florence R. Sabin, 1915