Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010)

Benoit Mandelbrot 1924 -2010: A Greek among Romans

Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-1910): a Greek among Romans

Was Benoit Mandelbrot Plagiarizing Ralph Elliott’s Wave Principle?

In February 1999, Benoit Mandelbrot submitted an article to Scientific American called ”A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street.” In it, he discusses how fractal geometry can be used to model the stock market curves. In the following months several letters to the editor appeared claiming that Mandelbrot had plagiarized the work of the economist Ralph Nelson Elliott, who had rigorously sought to un...

In Memoriam: Robert M. Chanock, MD, 1924–2010.

The world of biomedical science lost a revered leader on July 30, 2010, with the death of Robert M. Chanock (Figure 1), age 86, at Copper Ridge residential care center, Sykesville, Maryland, from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. Bob Chanock’s impact on infectious diseases in the last half of the twentieth century was unparalleled. In a 1967 reference to Bob’s first decade at the Na...

Dr. Stuart L. Vandewater (b. 1924).

University in Kingston, in an expanding career Dr. Stuart Vandewater made innumerable contributions to Canadian anesthesia and to administrative and organizational aspects of Canadian medicine. His career shows how an anesthesiologist can influence activities that are far removed from the operating room. Born in Campbellford, Ontario, on November 16, 1924, Dr. Vandewater and his wife Mary (nee ...