William Elliot Griffis, Class of 1869

The life and legacy of William Ernest Miles (1869-1947): a tribute to an admirable surgeon.

The present article aimed to review some important aspects regarding the work and life of the legendary English surgeon William Ernest Miles. His masterwork began at the beginning of the 20th century, when he devised the first radical procedure that aimed to control rectal cancer, after analyzing the poor outcomes of perineal resections for the disease. The famous 1908 publication, focusing on ...

Elliot Anshelevich

My research interests center in the design and analysis of algorithms, especially in large decentralized networks. My main focus has largely been on algorithmic game theory, and more specifically on networks involving strategic agents. In order to understand such networks, I also study diffusion processes in social networks, and more generally approximation algorithms. An increasing number of n...

1284 Elliot and Sheldon

Three studies demonstrated that avoidance personal goals are positively related to physical symptom reports. These results were obtained (a) using both longitudinal and retrospective methodologies and (b) controlling for neuroticism and other alternative predictor variables. In 2 of the studies, a process model was validated in which perceived competence and perceived controlledness were shown ...

Dr. Elliot Rapaport: a true legend.

Hans Spemann (1869-1941)

Hans Spemann [5] was an experimental embryologist best known for his transplantation studies [6] and as the originator of the ?organizer? concept. One of his earliest experiments involved constricting the blastomeres of a fertilized salamander [7] egg [8] with a noose of fine baby hair, resulting in a partially double embryo with two heads and one tail. Spemann continued changing variables such...