Walter Rudolf Hess

The Case of Rudolf Hess

a convincing exposition of his abnormalities. But although it gives an excellent psychological case-study, the bulk of it is written in terms which will also hold the interest of the layman. Its style is lucid, light and enlivened by flashes of humour. It is illustrated by several excellent photographs which themselves throw much light on Hess:s mentality. Apart from psychopathology, most inter...

Surrendering the self: the reduction of identity to identification with the aggressor. The cases of Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess.

Rudolf Virchow

Virchow was one of the 19th century’s foremost leaders in medicine and pathology. He was also a public health activist, social reformer, politician, and anthropologist. Virchow was the only child of a farmer and city treasurer in Schivelbein, Germany. He had a strong interest in natural science. In 1839, he received a scholarship from the Prussian Military Academy, where he was given the opport...

12 Rudolf Ahlswede ,

One of the basic results in extremal set theory was discovered in [1] and rediscovered in [2]: For a given number of k-element subsets of an n-set the shadow, that is, the set of ( k 1)-element subsets contained in at least one of the specified k-element subsets, is minimal, if the k-element subsets are chosen as an initial segment in the squashed order (see [10]; called colex order in [liD, th...

Sketch : W Grey Walter 1 Walter

Nobel-winning Sir Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War wrote a chapter on the "wizards" who had helped Britain win the war in the air by the development and use of radar. William Grey Walter (1910-1977) was one of those young wizards. He used his experience to design and construct a life-like robot with a nonlinear dynamic brain, which offered an existence proof that brains ...