Scientific Centenaries in 1945

Science and sensibility: gender and scientific enquiry, 1780–1945

and the special positions of Jews, Muslims and women in the field of medical care. From their special knowledge of the archives, they are able to present new details on the demographic distribution of medical practitioners throughout the Kingdom of Valencia during the fourteenth century. McVaugh, Garcia Ballester and Rubio Vela are at their most speculative when attempting to explain the increa...

Studies of avian malaria and Brazil in the international scientific context (1907-1945).

The article explores Brazilian investigators' contributions to research on the protozoan causative agent of malaria. Focusing on the work of Henrique Aragão and Wladimir Lobato Paraense, it underscores the importance of avian malaria in elucidating human malaria and treatment options, and also examines the network of scientific relations forged by these researchers, their shared research agenda...

Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others: 1933–1945

Murderous science is a short, complex book with an importance that extends far beyond the purview of World War Two historians. Muller-Hill's contention is that anthropologists, geneticists, and psychiatrists created, supported, and implemented Nazi racial-inferiority laws and policies. Moreover, there is a direct line from the 1933 job-exclusion laws that saw German scientific and other institu...

Seppo Santavirta 1945 – 2005

Harold Weintraub (1945–1995)

Acreative intellect, he contributed profoundly to our understanding of the molecular biology of development. From his early work on the structure of the eucaryotic chromosome to the recent identification of genes capable of etic-iting an entire program of cellular differentiation, Hal repeatedly identified important problems in biology and solved them in an elegant fashion. For those fortunate ...