Horticultural Reviews Jules Janick

[Jules Tinel (1879-1952)].

Nació en Rouen Francia, la quinta generación de médicos de su familia, su abuelo fue cirujano, su padre profesor de anatomía en la escuela de medicina de Rouen. Él tuvo un gran interés en la ciencia y mostró aptitudes para la pintura, la poesía y la composición de música. Estudió medicina en París de 1906 a 1910 donde estuvo con Déjèrine y otros médicos, su tesis se llamó «Radiculitis y Tabes»....

Book Reviews Tygiel, Jules. Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Le-

Certainly one of the most thoroughly discussed and popular subjects in American sport history is the story of Jackie Robinson and the integration of organized baseball. Few topics elicit such a responsive chord or stir people’s emotions more than the Robinson saga. It is a tale of courage and heroics, both on the part of Robinson and Branch Rickey, the “Mahatma” or “Deacon” of the national game...

Jules - Antoine Regnauld

Jules-Antoine Regnauld (1822-1895), French physician and pharmacist, who carried researches about mydriatic alkaloids (such as atropine), electrochemical phenomena, electromotive force, amalgams, properties of mixing in saline solutions, physiology, electrophysiology, fluorescence in live tissues, medical chemistry, anesthesia, and vision phenomena. Life and career Very little information is av...

Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle

sia. Nicolle's many accomplishments include the discovery that epidemic typhus is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanis corporis), discovery of the phenomenon of inap-parent infection, and possibly the first isolation of human influenza virus after experimental transmission. Nicolle made many other fundamental contributions to knowledge of infectious diseases. This year is the centenary o...

René Jules Dubos.