I was born and grew up in the village of Gözne, Mersin, a rural area Turkey Eastern Mediterranean. With self-subsistence farming occurring all around me, studying plant protection natural choice, so enrolled at Faculty Agriculture, Çukurova University Adana, Turkey. As an undergraduate student, particularly impressed by lectures practicals given Kemal Koç on horticultural diseases. came to UK f...

s Decennial Index (1937—1946), references to polysaccharide chemistry covered 2 pages, i.e., about 480 references. References to starch covered five pages (1200 references), and those to cellulose and its derivatives, 20 pages (4800 references). A total of 6480 references, including patents, in a ten year period. During 1947—1956 references to polysaccharides covered 6 pages, i.e. 1360 referenc...

Luther Burbank (1849–1926) was once widely acclaimed to be America’s most famous horticulturist and plant breeder. Today, however, his name may not be recognized by many in the general public. I found that he is also unknown to even some academic horticulturists whose formal coursework apparently did not include a history of their discipline. To those scientists who know something of him, he is...

On Friday 12 July 1968, the Medical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts University at Kiel conferred its honorary Doctorate of Medicine on Dr. F. N. L. Poynter in recognition of his work for the advancement of research and study in the History of Medicine, both as Director of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine and in the international sphere, especially in his capacity as Secretar...