Joseph Jumentié (1879-1928), a forgotten neurologist.

A neurologist in the origin of European and International neurosurgery: Clovis-Julien-Désiré Vincent (1879-1947).

Vincent Clovis began his carrier as a neurologist and finally became neurosurgeon at an advanced age. He is considered the founder of French neurosurgery, and after Harvey Williams Cushing, Europe's first neurosurgeon. He was mainly interested in pituitary tumors, in cerebral abscesses and in cerebral oedema.

Francis F. Maury, M.D. (1840 to 1879): an often forgotten pioneer in early American surgery.

Short Historical Review

Teofil Simchowicz (1879–1957) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist who studied medicine at the Warsaw University, and worked under the founder of modern Polish school of neurology, Edward Flatau (1868–1932). It was Flatau who encouraged him to join Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) in Munich. Simchowicz focused his research on the neuropathological changes in dementia. He emigrated with his wife to Palest...

Law, Description and Hypothesis in the Electrical Science.

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The Biosphere as a Biogeomeride and Its Biotope

The concept of a geomeride proposed by V.N. Beklemishev in 1928 and subsequently mistakenly forgotten is of basic significance for the development of the biosphere doctrine, global ecology, and stratigra phy. In the article, notions “biosphere,” “living matter,” and “geomeride” are discussed. The specified term “biogeomeride” is proposed to emphasize the significance of the living constituent o...