K eith Roberts Porter died on May 2, 1997, just over a month short of his 85th birthday. He had the perspicacity, good fortune, and patience to take advantage of the fast moving frontier of analytical biology after the Second World War to provide many of the techniques and experimental approaches that established the new field of biomedical research now known as cell biology. He was renowned fo...

Georgeanna Seegar Jones [6] was a reproductive endocrinologist who created one of America?s most successful infertility [7] clinics and eventually, along with her husband Howard W. Jones, MD, performed the first in vitro [8] fertilization [9] in America, leading to the birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr. Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 6 July 1912. Her father, Dr. John King Beck Emory See...

The passing of Joshua Leibowitz on 10 July 1993 closed a long and distinguished chapter in the history of medicine. His particular blend of medical, linguistic and historical scholarship was representative of that Baltic-Jewish tradition of learning which contributed so much to European culture before its dispersal and decimation by the Nazi horror. He will be widely mourned by the history of m...

Two new synonyms in the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 are established: aurantipuncta (Rothschild, 1912) = nusa Volynkin, 2019, syn. n., and dohertyi mertsana Volynkin & Černý, 2019 laoensis Kishida, 2020, n. The lectotype for Chionaema aurantiipuncta Rothschild, 1912 is designated. Adults male genitalia illustrated.

The genus Actorthia Kröber, 1912 was described based on a single female from Tourrah (Egypt) and is revised for the first time since the original description. Actorthia khedivialis (Becker, 1912) is newly synonymized with A. frontata (Kröber, 1912) based on examination of the type specimens of both species recently discovered in the Cairo University Collection (Egypt) and Natural History Museum...

Wilson's disease (WD) is an inherited disorder of copper metabolism first defined by Dr Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson in 1912 (Wilson, 1912). WD is caused by mutations to the gene coding for ATPase copper transporting beta polypeptide (ATP7B), which is located on 13 chromosome 13 and expressed in the liver (Bull et al.,1993; Loudianos et al.,1999; Yamaguchi et al.,1993; Frydman et al., 1985)....

The Old World doryctine wasp genus Doryctophasmus Enderlein, 1912 is reviewed. Two new species, D. beninus sp. nov. and D. madagascarus sp. nov., are described and illustrated from the Afrotropical region. The illustrated redescriptions of D. ferrugineiceps Enderlein, 1912, D. ferrugineus (Granger, 1949) and D. rubrotestaceus (Granger, 1949) are provided. Lectotypes of Doryctes ferrugineus Gran...

Axel Thue published four papers directly relating to the theory of words and languages: • two on patterns in infinite strings in 1906 and 1912 1,2 1 Axel Thue. Über unendliche Zeichenreihen. Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Skrifter, I. Math.-naturv. Klasse, 7, 1906 2 Axel Thue. Über die gegenseitige Lage gleicher Teile gewisser Zeichenreihen. Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Skrifter, I. Math.-nat...