George Vernadsky, 1887-1973

The George Bidder lecture 1973. Brains and worlds: the cerebral cosmologies.

Victor Jollos ( 1887 - 1941 )

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...

George

not much worried whether they be right or wrong. His desire to be the center of attraction may lead him to do things considered irrational when viewed from other angles. If he is in the upper 10 per cent of his class at school, it might be well to advance him to the next grade, provided he is sufficiently interested to show that he is capable of doing the work. If convenient, the teacher should...

The Pasteur Institute (1887- )

L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute) is a non-profit private research institution founded by Louis Pasteur on 4 June 1887 in Paris, France. The Institute's research focuses on the study of infectious diseases, micro-organisms, viruses, and vaccines. As of 2014, ten scientists have received Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine for the research they have done at the Pasteur Institute. Con...

G . Polya , 1887 - 1985

Jakab was a lawyer in the Budapest office of the Assicurazioni Generali of Trieste, a large international insurance firm. Before joining the company he had had a private law practice. His real interests, however, lay in economics and statistics and he continued to study these on the side, in the hope of obtaining an academic position in economics, so that he could devote full time to research. ...