Once a scientist, always a scientist

Razi a famous Iranian scientist

Among the brilliant contributors to the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and chemstry during the Iranian era was one genius who seems to stand for his time- the Persian, Razi, (about 865-925 AD), called Rhazes by the western world. The most important authorship of Razi is the "contines" (Alhavi) that in fact, it is a medical encyclopedia and there is the describtion of all the illnesses, the way...

Razi a famous Iranian scientist

Among the brilliant contributors to the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and chemstry during the Iranian era was one genius who seems to stand for his time- the Persian, Razi, (about 865-925 AD), called Rhazes by the western world. The most important authorship of Razi is the "contines" (Alhavi) that in fact, it is a medical encyclopedia and there is the describtion of all the illnesses, the way...

Takeshi Matsuura: A Truly Inspirational Friend and Membrane Scientist

Stereotypic Images of the Scientist : The Draw - A - Scientist Test *

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries visual and verbal images of the scientist were many and varied. Caricaturists, cartoonists, artists, and writers produced a diverse range of stereotypic figures: diabolical madmen, distinguished professors, harmless eccentrics, learned buffoons, and fashionable dilettantes. Naturalists in the field among flora and fauna were often pictured, as were...

A portrait of a scientist

Received: 24 July 2005 Revised: 21 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 I did not have the good fortune to meet Claudio Ciborra until relatively late in life. Not that his reputation as a scholar was by any means unknown to me. Many colleagues had spoken of him, I myself had struck upon a number of his highly incisive and stimulating articles, I had even begun to gather some presentations...