Miscellanea Patristica in memoriam Joannis Czuj, ed. V. Myszor-Ae. Stanula, SACh 2, Warszawa 1980, ATK s. 287

In Memoriam: Fredric S. Fay

Fred Fay died unexpectedly at 53 years of age while working with colleagues in Germany. Fred spent most of his career at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he had been one of the founding faculty members. His biological interests were the contractile mechanisms of smooth muscle and chemotaxis, but Fred’s greatest enthusiasm was for instrumentation. Fred invented new ways to se...

In Memoriam: E S Fedorov

Among the scientists who in various ways paved the way for Laue’s discovery and for Bragg’s determination of crystal structures, there is one who occupies the most important place: E. S. Fedorov (18531919), the eminent Russian crystallographer. His most outstanding achievement is the derivation of the 230 symmetry space groups which now serve as the mathematical basis of structural analysis. Al...

Miscellanea Medica

Calcium waves in Warszawa.

Signaling between cells is an essential property of multicellular organisms. Since it was recognized that external signals—first messengers—have to be translated inside cells into specific responses mediated by second messengers, it became evident that next to cyclic AMP, the classical second messenger, Ca plays a central role in converting extracellular signals into a multitude of intracellula...

Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (1980)

Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories was a 1980 California case that established the doctrine of market share liability for personal injury cases. For such liability, when a drug causes personal injury and the manufacturer of the drug cannot be identified, each producer is responsible for paying the settlement in proportion to the percentage of the market they supplied. Judith Sindell and Maureen Rog...