William Duane Wilson

1839 WILLIAM WILSON Edgar

(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...

William Wilson and the Absorption of Beta Rays

In the first decade of the 20 century, physicists believed that the particles emitted in radioactive decay were monoenergetic and that such monoenergetic electrons would be absorbed exponentially in passing through matter. Conversely, they also believed that if electrons followed an exponential absorption law then they were monoenergetic. William Wilson showed conclusively that this view was wr...

On X - Ray Spectra by William Duane and R . a . Patterson

Visual cortex neurons in monkeys and cats : WILSON S . GEISLER nNn DUANE

A descriptive function method was used to measure the dctection, discrimination, and identiflcation pcr-formance of a large population of single neurons recorded from within the primary visual cortcx of thc monkey and the cat, along six stimulus dimensions: contrast. spatial position, orientation, spatial irequency, temporal fiequency, and direction of motion. First. the responses of single neu...

[Duane vertical surgical treatment].

CASE REPORT We report 3 cases with a vertical incomitance in upgaze, narrowing of palpebral fissure, and pseudo-overaction of both inferior oblique muscles. Surgery consisted of an elevation of both lateral rectus muscles with an asymmetrical weakening. A satisfactory result was achieved in 2 cases, whereas a Lambda syndrome appeared in the other case. DISCUSSION The surgical technique of upp...