Woman Professor

A forgotten woman professor and lymphologist.

A review of "The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine" (New England Journal of Medicine, March 20, 1997) erroneously stated that cardiologist Helen Taussig (Fig. 1) was the first female full Professor at the Johns Hopkins Medical School (JHMS). In fact, Florence Sabin (Fig. 2) in 1917 was the first (1). Underlying this seeming trivial mistake, however, lies an enlightening historical footn...

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Professor Bahram Peimani-Fard

Bahram Peimani-Fard was born in 1941, in Yazd, Iran, where he completed his elementary, and high school education. He received his M.Sc. degree in Soil and Water Engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University. Then, he was employed in the Range Improvement and Forage Supply Organization, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture to collaborate with Mr. Kernik, the FAO expert...

PROFESSOR KARIM SAEI

Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...

Opponent: Professor

This research is about a small village school participating in an inter-institutional electronic network of schools using information and communication technologies in the context of the Kilpisjärvi project 1994 to 1997. The project concerned the establishment of the lower secondary school in the Kilpisjärvi village. The school was linked with a network which also included the Teacher Training ...