Arthur P. Mendel, 1927–1988

Gabor P . Haas , Arthur G . Johnson

In studies to date, the C3H/HeJ strain of mice has been shown to be unresponsive to all the investigated aspects of endotoxicity exerted by phenol extracted endotoxic lipopolysaccharides (LPS), e.g., adjuvant action (1, 2), mitogenicity (3-5), polyclonal B lymphocyte Ig synthesis (1, 6), endotoxic shock (5), enhancement of nonspecific resistance to infection (7), leukocyte changes (8), protecti...

By GABOR P . HAAS , ARTHUR G . JOHNSON , AND ALOIS NOWOTNY

In studies to date, the C3H/HeJ strain of mice has been shown to be unresponsive to all the investigated aspects of endotoxicity exerted by phenol extracted endotoxic lipopolysaccharides (LPS), e.g., adjuvant action (1, 2), mitogenicity (3-5), polyclonal B lymphocyte Ig synthesis (1, 6), endotoxic shock (5), enhancement of nonspecific resistance to infection (7), leukocyte changes (8), protecti...

Arthur P . Dempster Award Harvard University Statistics Department

The Arthur P. Dempster Fund “will support and recognize promising graduate students within the Department of Statistics, in particular those who have made significant contributions to theoretical or foundational research in statistics.” It will be an annual award with a prize minimum of $2000. The expectation is to award one per year, though the faculty reserves the right to award two or none i...

Mendel might get dizzy.

Building on Mendel

Twelve months after the first successes of an ambitious project to commemorate Mendel in the abbey where he carried out his work, efforts are now turning to the gardens, perhaps some of the most intellectually fruitful patches of ground in the world. Restoration work in the abbey, in the beautiful Czech city of Brno, reveals a building in which little has changed since Mendel’s time where it is...