Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer?

Robert J . Webster III

As a flexible needle with a bevel tip is pushed through soft tissue, the asymmetry of the tip causes the needle to bend. We propose that, by using nonholonomic kinematics, control, and path planning, an appropriately designed needle can be steered through tissue to reach a specified 3D target. Such steering capability could enhance targeting accuracy and may improve outcomes for percutaneous th...

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Robert J. Wenthold (1948–2009)

Robert J. Wenthold (Bob) grew up on a farm outside of Cresco, Iowa, a small town near the Minnesota border. Anyone who knew Bob would acknowledge that he never lost the midwestern work ethic gained during his formative years. After high school, Bob left the farm and went to Loras College, a small liberal arts college in Dubuque, Iowa. Following the completion of his undergraduate degree, he pur...

Who was Elizabeth Okeover?

Modem notions of medical authority being essentially embodied in the figure of the professionally trained and registered practitioner and his corporate representatives, and in the medical textbook or official pharmacopoeia, are comparatively recent developments. Much work has been done by historians of medicine to show that, far from being merely an underdeveloped version of modem medicine, the...

Who Was Miss Mullikin?

1. INTRODUCTION. In 1946 R. L. Moore, responding to a prospective student's request for information about graduate study, closed his letter with a personal note: " Please remember me to Miss Mullikin " [18, p. 295]. Who was Miss Mullikin? And why did someone of Moore's stature wish to convey his best wishes to her? Anna Margaret Mullikin (1893–1975) was Moore's third Ph.D. student, one of the f...