Comments Upon Receiving 2019 Excellent Article Award

Comments on Durst’s article

I would like to begin by briefly reviewing the assumptions and hypotheses the NSM approach is predicated on. The goal of this exercise is to understand how these are interrelated, what hinges on every one of them, and what consequences arise from discarding an assumption or disproving a hypothesis. This process defines a number of projects which all agree up to some point and then depart. Prima...

Endangered Democratic Institutions and Instrumental Inquiry: Remarks upon Receiving the Veblen-Commons Award

Comments upon the Medical Curriculum

1921-22. At the beginning of the last academic year a radical change was made in the curriculum. It has been a time-honored custom to assign students who are just commencing the study of clinical disease at the beginning of their third year, to the out-patient clinic where they obtained a fleeting glance of a multitude of individuals in many stages of health and disease, while the Seniors in th...

SeismologyGreatness thrust upon them : Article : Nature

The latest research seems to imply that all earthquakes are born equal. But combining that insight with earlier, seemingly contradictory, work could help us to tell which tremors grow to become more equal than others. In an analysis on page 358 (/nature/journal/v444/n7117/full/nature05275.html) of this issue1 (/nature/journal/v444/n7117/full/444276a.html#B1) , Steven Wesnousky provides strong e...

Remarks on the Occasion of Receiving the 1980 Ismar Award

In 1948, in the Institute of Hans Kopfermann in Gottingen, where I had just completed my experimental diplom-arbeit under Peter Brix, it was well known that I was supporting myself and my studies by the repair and barter of pre-war radios. So when Hubert Kruger, then one of Kopfermanns assistants, wanted to launch a search for rf spectra in solids, I was a natural choice and was signed on as hi...