The Air Conference, 1920.

The history of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) 1920–2014

The following history has been compiled and written by the authors. The historical facts are available from the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) archives, dating back to letters and summaries written by the founders, and by a few of the Secretary-Treasurers from the early decades through 2014. THE ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE: The CRWAD is a non-profit organization and has ...

The European Metropolis 1920-2000

Comparative studies of urbanisation can be characterized by their emphasis on the quantitative and visual aspects of urban growth, which is amongst other things reflected in the analysis of spatial patterns and rates of urban population growth. The visual aspects relate both to the spatial realisation of the demand for urban land use and its functional variation. This emphasis can be understood...

Homer F. Swift, 1920

François Jacob (1920–2013)

“Plus que jamais, la recherche me paraissait s’identifier à la nature humaine. En exprimer l’appétit, le désir de vivre. C’était bien le meilleur moyen trouvé par l’homme de braver le chaos de l’univers. De dominer la mort.” (More than ever, scientific research seemed to me to be intrinsic to human nature. It expressed the hunger, the desire to live. It has, in fact, been the best means found b...

Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

François Jacob studied bacteria and bacteriophages at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, in the second half of the twentieth century. In 1965, Jacob won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3] with André M. Lwoff and Jacques L. Monod for their work on the genetic control of enzyme synthesis. Jacob studied how genes [4] control and regulate metabolic enzymes in the bacterium Escherichi...