Historical eulogy of Charles H. Coulomb

Charles Augustin Coulomb and the fundamental law of electrostatics

In his famous experiment on the inverse square law of electrostatics, Coulomb neither defined electric charge nor gave reliable measurements of the force–distance relation. Yet the experiment has often been viewed as the basis of the fundamental law of electrostatics. This paper discusses Coulomb’s life, showing the context within which he was working, how he arrived at the experiment, and the ...

Charles H. DePuy (1927-2013).

Topology and Physics—a historical essay CHARLES NASH

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Eulogy for the clinical research center.

The extramural General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) program has been funded for more than 50 years, first by the National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and more recently as part of the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) program through the newly formed National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (NCATS). The GCRCs represent the federally funded laboratories that employ ...

Eulogy for the Metabolic Clinical Investigator?

A recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Investigation by Nathan et al. (1) dwelt on the decision to cease direct National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of Clinical Research Centers (CRCs). As the authors rightly point out, the lack of extramural support for the CRC infrastructure will doom this valuable resource for human research at academic institutions without the wherewithal to s...