Charles William Merton Hart, 1905-1976

Lyman J. Bratzler, 1905-1976: a brief biography.

Lyman J . Bratzler was born September 24, 1905, at Barrington, IL, where he obtained his elementary and high school education. He was reared on a dairy farm, from which he developed his interest in agriculture. He entered the University of Illinois in 1926 and was a member of the Meats Judging Team in 1929. He received inspiration from some great teachers: Dean Mumford, Sleeter Bull, R. R. Snap...

William Maley , Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur

As the Western world enters a new millennium, the seemingly settled parameters of a global politics based on the interaction of sovereign states appear increasingly threatened. On the one hand, processes of globalisation, especially in the economic sphere, have limited the freedom of action of those political elites who do not wish to bear the costs of pursuing autarkic policies. The debate bet...

The life of Charles Ledger (1818–1905): alpacas and quinine

(1938), 'Psychological medicine' (in 60,000 words for Prince's Textbook ofmedicine, 1941) and Health as a social concept (1953), he provided a clear, spare contrast to what Shepherd has called the "pleonastic obesity of most psychiatric textbooks". Many modern historians might blanch at his versions of philological history, but to Lewis history was of the essence. "Of the value of such studies ...

Report of the Tenth Geological Expedition of Hon. Charles H. Morrill, Season of 1905.

Quant Corner Robert Merton Merton model for valuing corporate debt

‚robert merton, who’s best known for his academic work in developing option-pricing models, published his first scholarly paper on a topic far removed from finance: Gulliver’s Travels. While an undergraduate at Columbia University in New York, he wrote a piece for a literature class that analyzed the physical impossibility of a flying island as described in Jonathan Swift’s classic work. Merton...