The benefactor

Chain entropy: spoiler or benefactor in pattern recognition?

A lthough how life began on our planet will always be of intrigue, polymers must have certainly existed before the beginning of life, because life as we now know it requires replicating polymers. There is little doubt (1) that replication of polymers, e.g., DNA, involves complexation among molecules consisting of complementary specific chemical sequences. Such processes of recognition of chemic...

Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

When on their way to London, Tom Jones and Partridge are attacked by a highwayman, who wants a hundred-pound banknote that Tom carries in his pocket, Tom’s behavior manifests both his personal bravery and what strikes Partridge (and some readers) as a rather extravagant kindness. After deftly disarming the robber, Tom lets him tell his story. He learns that this is the first robbery that the ma...

The Cajal Club: Its origin, originator and benefactor, Wendell J. S. Krieg.

The Cajal Club is a small organization of neuroscientists that has met annually since it was founded in 1947. The fourteen founding members voted at its organizational meeting that the Club be named to honor the great Spanish Neuroscientist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal. The beginnings and the early development of the Cajal Club that was led by Professor Wendell J. S. Krieg, a distinguished neuroanat...

A Benefactor of His Race: Thoreau's "Higher Laws" and the Heroics of Vegetarianism

Willet M. Hays, great benefactor to plant breeding and the founder of our association.

Willet M. Hays was a great benefactor to plant breeding and the founder of the American Genetic Association (AGA). We commemorate the AGA's centennial. We mined university archives, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yearbooks, plant breeding textbooks, scientific periodicals, and descendants for information. Willet Hays first recognized the individual plant as the unit of selection and star...