Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

Gustav Jacob Born (1851-1900)

Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians [5] served as the platform for his wax-plate method [6] of embryo modeling, heteroblastic (different tissues) and xenoplastic (similar species) transplantation methods, environmental influences on sex ratio studies, and proposed function of the corpus luteum [7]. He was born 22 April 1851 in Kempen, Prussia, ...

Rudolf Virchow

Virchow was one of the 19th century’s foremost leaders in medicine and pathology. He was also a public health activist, social reformer, politician, and anthropologist. Virchow was the only child of a farmer and city treasurer in Schivelbein, Germany. He had a strong interest in natural science. In 1839, he received a scholarship from the Prussian Military Academy, where he was given the opport...

Gustav Mie: the person.

About 25 years ago, when I became acquainted with the name Gustav Mie, I was unable to find an entry for him in such major encyclopedias as the Britannica or even in several listings of famous scientists [T. I. Williams, A Biographical Sketch of Scientists (Wiley, New York, 1967); J. Turkevich and L. Turkevich, Prominent Scientists of Continental Europe (Elsevier, New York, 1968)]. This puzzled...

12 Rudolf Ahlswede ,

One of the basic results in extremal set theory was discovered in [1] and rediscovered in [2]: For a given number of k-element subsets of an n-set the shadow, that is, the set of ( k 1)-element subsets contained in at least one of the specified k-element subsets, is minimal, if the k-element subsets are chosen as an initial segment in the squashed order (see [10]; called colex order in [liD, th...

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