William Mitchinson Hicks. 1850-1934

William Henry Welch (1850-1934): the road to Johns Hopkins.

William Henry Welch's selection in 1884 as the first faculty member of the new medical school at Johns Hopkins created the invigorating atmosphere that generated the revolutionary changes in medical training and laboratory medicine that transformed medicine in America. Dr. Welch's family traditions, his New England upbringing, Yale education, and German university experience prepared a unique i...

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

Hicks To elect Miss Notre

Pat Mullin, Special Projects Chairman o f the Social Comm is­ sion, has revealed tha t pictures o f almost for ty St. M ary’s girls were subm it ted as entries in the Miss N otre Dame contes t before the 2 p.m. deadline Friday. F rom this field, seven girls have been chosen as finalists by the Social Commission: Terri Buck, Geraldine C hatm an, Cathy Hicks, Anne Kersten, Mary Beth Gallagher, Ca...

Mr Hicks and the "Monetarists"

Hicks Diode Properties of Nanotube Networks

Making semiconductor devices based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) is one of the more compelling potential applications of these long but ultrathin structures. We see asymmetric voltage-current behavior across a random network of SWCNTs contacted by asymmetric metal electrodes (Au/Al). No effort was made to align the SWCNTs or to eliminate metallic nanotubes in our devices, procedures...