Obituary: FREDERICK SILVESTER BONUGLI, 1913-1967

Frederick Jelinek's Obituary

Prof. Frederick Jelinek, dr.h.c., Julian Sinclair Smith Professor at theWhiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University and the director of JHU’s Center for Language Speech and Processing, died unexpectedly at his workplace on Sept. 14, 2010. Prof. Jelinek is survived by his wife Milena Jelinek, professor at Columbia University, son and daughter William and Hannah, three grandchil...

Obituary--Dr. Jacinto Convit--1913-2014.

Dr. Jacinto Convit, renowned for his contributions to leprosy, has died at the age of 100, on May 12, 2014, a few months before his 101 anniversary. After a period as visiting professor at the University of Stanford in 1962 and later in the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Dr. Convit returned to Caracas with the mission to create a research center in tropical medicine. He was a leading figur...

Professor James Harlan Steele, DVM (1913-2013). Obituary.

April 1913, and passed away on the 10th of November 2013 in Houston. He graduated from Chicago High School in 1930, was made Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1941 (Michigan State University) and Master of Public Health in 1942 (Harvard University). He was involved in the creation of the first national veterinary public health programs, both for the US government (Veterinary Public Health Progra...

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Frederick Cohan

In graduate school I became interested in Ernst Mayr’s ideas on species and speciation, particularly his idea that a species is a cohesive body, whose divergence is opposed by various forces of evolution, and that the splitting of species marks the origin of lineages that no longer cohere. Species were thought to be cohesive mostly as a result of recurrent genetic exchange among them, but I was...