Eighty years of superfluidity

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.

Eighty years after the first glimpse of the tubercle bacillus.

First recurrence of osteomyelitis eighty years after infection.

Eighty years ago: the beginnings of population genetics.

I suppose that every teacher of elementary genetics has at one time or another encountered the b lief that in the absence of counteracting factors there should be three times as many dominant as recessive phenotypes in the population. It was this statement that induced G. H. HARDY in 1908 to write his famous paper. He started out somewhat apologetically, saying: “I am reluctant to intrude in a ...