George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1876-1962

George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883?1962)

Papanicolaou was born 13 May 1883 in the city of Kymi on the island of Euboea in Greece. He was the third son of Maria Georgiou and Nikolas Papanicolaou. His father was a doctor and mayor of Kymi. In his youth, Papanicolaou studied literature, philosophy, foreign languages, and he played the violin. After high school in Athens, Greece, he studied medicine at the University of Athens in Athens. ...

George Papanicolaou (1883-1962): Discoverer of the Pap smear.

50 years after the death of George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883-1962): evaluation of his scientific work.

The purpose of this review article is to summarise the scientific work of George Nicholas Papanicolaou, one of the most eminent figures in the 20th century history of clinical cytology and medicine. Fifty years after his death, his work still remains invaluable, from the early steps in biology and zoology to the application of the Pap test as the most important advancement in the prevention of ...

Macaulay Expansion

Given natural numbers n and r , the “greedy” algorithm enables us to obtain an expansion of the integer n as a sum of binomial coefficients in the form (ar r ) + (ar−1 r−1 ) + · · · + (a1 1 ) . We give an alternate interpretation of this expansion, which also proves its uniqueness in an interesting manner. The 1996 Iranian mathematical olympiad competition contained the following problem. For n...

George N. Papanicolaou (1883–1962), an exceptional human, scientist and academic teacher: An interview with Dr Neda Voutsa-Perdiki

Dr Neda Voutsa-Perdiki, former Director of Exfoliative Cytology at the University of Florida (Florida, USA), talks about her academic teacher Dr George N. Papanicοlaou, referred to as the 'Father of Exfoliative Cytology', and his wife Mache, known as Mary Papanicolaou. According to Dr Voutsa-Perdiki, Dr Papanicolaou was an exceptional teacher and a unique humanitarian in modern medical history....