Walter Schottky (1886-1976)

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 ...

Op-gbev130144 1886..1901

Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes. Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs can explain much about their rapid evolution and diversification. Genome size in angiosperms is highly correlated with TE content and the overwhelming bulk (>80%) of large genomes can be composed of TEs. Among retro-TEs, ...

Walter Salisbury

Mr. Walter Salisbury died suddenly at Northampton on "th January, 1935, at the age of forty-six. He had been suffering from pneumonia following influenza. He entered the Bristol Medical School in 1906, and was a student at the -ftoyal Infirmary, winning the Tibbits Prize for Surgery. He qualified M.B., B.S. London, in 1913, and held the offices ?f House Surgeon and Casualty Officer at the Royal...

Edward Hindle, 1886-1973.

Geoffrey Jefferson 1886-1961.

Email alerting service here corner of the article or click article-sign up in the box at the top right-hand Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this