Otto Loewi was born in Frankfurt in 1873, became professor of pharmacology in Graz in 1909 and laid the foundation of the theory of neurochemical transmission in 1920. For this he shared a Nobel prize with Dale in 1936, and in 1938, for being Jewish, he was briefly imprisoned and then expelled from Australia. He then emigrated to the United States where he spent the rest of his life. Loewi wrot...

Schack August Steenberg Krogh was born in Grenaa, Jutland. His ancestors had emigrated from Holstein and Schleswig, where his father's family had settled as small farmers three hundred years earlier. Krogh's father was a brewer, though he had been trained as a shipbuilder. Ships and the sea were some of Krogh's unceasing interests. Krogh, who was the oldest of six brothers and sisters, had alre...

The use of space teaches people who use it. This is especially true for the Christian church in employing sanctuaries and buildings for worship. James White argues that a reconsideration of our use of space is necessary to accommodate the adage “to move people spiritually we need to move them physically.” He does so by delineating six liturgical spaces and three-to-four liturgical centers that ...

Accepted for publication 5 July 1990 It is a delight to reflect on one of the truly great medical men of this century. Although I did not have the pleasure of meeting Sidney Dyke until the mid 1940s, I had been well tutored about his existence and his unique abilities by several senior colleagues. These included Frederick Hill, physician to Bruntcliffe Isolation Hospital, Morley, Georgina Bonse...

Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) was the first scientist born in Poland to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology (1950) for the "discovery of hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects", as stated by the Nobel Prize Committee. His family being deeply devoted to Polish cultural and historical heritage, his first name was given to him after Tadeus Kosciuszko, ...