JOHN EvELYN has often been described as a virtuoso in the seventeenth-century meaning of that word, and if it be recalled that the Earl of Arundel, the greatest of the virtuosi was his patron, that Evelyn was a member of the Royal Society almost from its inception and a diligent attendant of its meetings, which at that time dealt with a wide variety of curiosa and technological as well as scien...

? deeply regret to record the death of Mr. John Harty at the age of 47, which occurred on March 10th. Mr. Harty was born in Ireland and received his medical education at Queen's College, Cork, and graduated M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., in the ttoyal University of Ireland in 1902. After spending several years at Halifax in general practice he decided to specialise in car, nose and throat work, and studi...

In the study of work related diseases, John Corbett McDonald was a pioneering investigator, whose research and techniques in many ways defined occupational epidemiology. His best known role from the mid-1960s onwards—analysing the effects on health of different forms of asbestos—yielded controversy in a highly contentious field. An inspiration to epidemiologists worldwide, McDonald produced res...

John Parkes was born in Marton, went to school in New Plymouth, and completed his BSc and MSc degrees at Massey University. He joined the Forest Research Institute at Ilam as a scientist in 1975 and transferred to Landcare Research when the Crown Research Institutes were formed in 1992. John has worked on the ecology of many mammals (hedgehogs, possums, swamp wallabies, hares, red deer, wapiti,...

When I was 6-years-old I wrote a letter to Roy Rogers, the cowboy star of movies and television, asserting that I was his biggest fan. That was the first and only fan letter I ever wrote. When I was invited to speak at a Festschrift for John Bartlett, I quickly replied, “I am much honored to be asked to be part of your proposed celebration of John. I can’t think of anyone in our discipline who ...

Assistant Member, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute 2012– Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 2012– Assistant Professor, Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology Program, 2013– Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Independent Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), 2008–20...

Before giving the mathematical description of the Löwner-John ellipsoids and pointing out some of their far-ranging applications, I briefly illuminate the adventurous life of the two eminent mathematicians, by whom the ellipsoids are named: Charles Loewner (Karel Löwner) and Fritz John. Karel Löwner was born into a Jewish family in Lány, a small town about 30 km west of Prague, in 1893. Due to ...

he undertook at the request of the Editorial Committee, of which was a member. He continued to write the reports of the meetings until 1913, and the records of our meetings have never before or since been so full and accurate. In addition, he had charge of the reviewio^ section of the Journal, and in his quiet way jogged the memories 0 sluggish reviewers so that authors and publishers had few g...

and at Netley, he took the first place, and carried of all the prizes, viz., the Herbert Prize, Martin Memorial Gold Medal, Montefiore Medal, and Parke's Memorial Bronze Medal. At the close of the Session at the Army Medical School, Sir Galbraith Logan, K.C.B., in handing to Dr. Young, in succession, all these prizes and medals, made some happy references to t( the special advantages that might...

The web browser is the most important application runtime today, encompassing all types of applications on practically every Internet-connected device. Browsers power complete office suites, media players, games, and augmented and virtual reality experiences, and they integrate with cameras, microphones, GPSes, and other sensors available on computing devices. Many apparently native mobile and ...