John Spencer Jones

Kerry Spencer

The fall of tsarism in Russia in 1917 was the culmination of many factors. It is perhaps widely noted that Nicholas II was not suited to his role as Tsar, mainly due to his character and personality. Resentment of his wife and her involvement with the mystical Rasputin was also widespread and helped contribute to the collapse of the monarchy. Also the state of the country during World War One l...

Spencer-Attix Cavity Theory

Taken to School: An Interview with the Honorable Judge John E. Jones, III

I once had a post-doctoral fellow who, upon discovering we had grown up a quarter mile from each other in a small town in Pennsylvania, commented on our shared experience with, ‘‘Well, you know what they say about Pennsylvania? There’s Philadelphia, there’s Pittsburgh, and there’s the state of Alabama in between.’’ That blunt assessment (attributable to James Carville) certainly resonated when ...

The death of John Paul Jones and resurrection as 'father of the US Navy'.

John Paul Jones, 'father of the US Navy', died under mysterious circumstances on July 18, 1792. Although his remains were resurrected and autopsied 113 years later, the cause of his death has yet to be explained fully. In this detailed review of his clinical history and autopsy findings, we conclude, as have others, that Jones died of kidney failure of undermined etiology. Although 'interstitia...

2 Spencer Bloch And

Let X be a smooth, projective algebraic variety over an algebraically closed field k, and let H(X) denote a Weil cohomology theory. The existence of algebraic cycles on X×X inducing as correspondences the various Künneth projectors π : H(X) → H (X) is one of the standard conjectures of Grothendieck, [8], [9]. It is known in general only for the cases i = 0, 1, 2d − 1, 2d where d = dimX. The pur...