منابع مشابه
1986 James B. Macelwane Awards
I can th ink of few th ings m o r e p leasurab le t han i n t r o d u c i n g a y o u n g scientist whose re search has e n h a n c e d his visibility to such an ex ten t tha t his o r h e r image is clearly distin guishable f rom a m o n g the la rge n u m b e r of y o u n g scientists pub l i sh ing excel lent r e sea rch these days. Normal ly , t he rec ip ient of a y o u n g scientist awa...
متن کاملRodbell Receives Honor
-The successful development of the concept of linking cell-killing agents to tumour-specific antibodies will be largely determined by the extent to which the antibodies are preferentially localized in the malignant tissue. A xenograft of human choriocarcinoma (CC3) has been established in nude mice, and the relative distribution of affinity-purified specific antibodies to human chorionic gonado...
متن کاملThe Richard Webster Medal
There have recently been moves afoot among evolutionary biologists to stop speaking of ‘Darwin’s theory of evolution’ and, instead, to call it ‘Darwin’s law of evolution’. This is to stymie creationists who like to say ‘evolution is only a theory’. Now I am all in favour of stymieing creationists, but I think that this idea is misguided. The underlying assumption is that the use of the word ‘La...
متن کاملGuEld Receives Mass Communion
Harry O. Fox continues as treasurer of the Civil Service Employees Association. He defeated Vernon R. Davis for t he post. The •ote was 11,406 for Fox, 5,855 for Davis. In last week's LEADER'S tabulation of the voting, a "1" was left out of Harry 's vote, which reduced the count to a mere dribble, arid the proof reader didn't catch it. So here's t h e correct figw e again for Har ry : 11,406. A...
متن کاملThe Myth and the Medal
The weekend before the start of the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians, I contributed an op-ed to the New York Times about the history of the Fields Medal. The article treated two topics that are familiar to many mathematicians, if not necessarily to the general public. I suggested that a previously unrecognized connection between these two stories, discovered in the course of my res...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0096-3941
DOI: 10.1029/97eo00220