Dr. George Martin

Dr. Martin Jansson's Siderophone

a telephone trumpet t. When the primary circuit is closed, the enclosed iron bar d becomes magnetised, and in its turn it magnetises the smaller bar b. Secondary currents are thus induced in the fine coil around b. It will be observed that the prolonged axis of d cuts b at its middle ; two secondary currents of equal strength and running in opposite directions are thus induced in the fine coil ...

In Memoriam: George Martin Baer (1936–2009)

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 15, No. 8, August 2009 1335 G Martin Baer, DVM, MPH, who for many years was chief of the Rabies Laboratory in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, died suddenly at his home in Mexico City on June 2, 2009, at the age of 73. He was an eminent veterinary v...

Obituary of Dr. Angelo Di George

Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Dr Robert George (Rob) Jones FRCPsych

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born into the closed society of segregated Georgia, a grandson of sharecroppers not far removed from America's original sin of slavery. This year, he is being honored a day before Barack Obama will place his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible and take the oath of office as the nation's first black president. "The arc of history is long," King reminded us, "but ...