Roderick Angus Gordon (b. 1911)

Dr R. A. Gordon 1911-1998.

B-SPLINE COLLOCATION APPROACH FOR SOLUTION OF KLEIN-GORDON EQUATION

We develope a numerical method based on B-spline collocation method to solve linear Klein-Gordon equation. The proposed scheme is unconditionally stable. The results of numerical experiments have been compared with the exact solution to show the efficiency of the method computationally. Easy and economical implementation is the strength of this approach.  

Andreas Maurer/ Roderick Parkes

The upgrading of the European Commission and the European Parliament’s role in the EU policy-process from 1999 might have been expected to herald a shift away from the previous securityand control-orientation of asylum policy. No such shift occurred. This paper traces the continuity in EU asylum policy’s trajectory to the continuity in its ‘policy-image’: actors seeking to fashion institutional...

Roderick MacKinnon - Nobel Lecture

All living cells are surrounded by a thin, approximately 40 Å thick lipid bilayer called the cell membrane. The cell membrane holds the contents of a cell in one place so that the chemistry of life can occur, but it is a barrier to the movement of certain essential ingredients including the ions Na+, K+, Ca2+ and Cl-. The barrier to ion flow across the membrane – known as the dielectric barrier...

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005)

The editorial board lost a real soul mate when Maclyn McCarty passed away on January 2nd at age 93. While attending the theater with friends, one of the many activities that he enjoyed, he collapsed. “Dr. Mac” was revered worldwide for his remarkable experiments that led to the identification of DNA as the genetic material. This totally unanticipated discovery, and the revolutionary 1944 paper ...