In memoriam: Luisa Mercedes Levinson y Beatriz Guido

[Dr. Juan Cárdenas y Cárdenas. In memoriam].

El nombre Juan le venía muy bien al doctor Cárdenas dado que su significado: "el Señor es misericordioso", bien puede describir la principal virtud de este hombre que hoy recordamos con cariño, por haber sido un buen hombre, un buen amigo y un buen médico. En cuanto a su apellido derivado de la palabra cardo que es una planta con espinas y también con flores, esasímismo descriptivo de esa perso...

María Luisa

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

Micromorphology of Cryptococcus neoformans ' MERCEDES

Fine details of the internal and external morphology of Cryptococcus neoformans as seen in ultrathin sections are described and illustrated with electron micrographs. The capsule characteristic of this species contained microfibrils (30 to 40 A in diameter) that appeared to radiate from the cell wall and to coil and intertwine in various directions. These thin, uniformly structured, electron-de...