Sir Andrew Stephen

Sir Andrew Huxley: 1917–2012

Another recent surprise was the discovery of a phytoplankton bloom under the sea ice of the Arctic during investigations in the north Pacific led by Kevin Arrigo from Stanford University (Science (2012) 336, 1408). This, the authors conclude, could mean that productivity in the icy polar waters may have been underestimated by a factor of up to ten, which underlines that we still know far too li...

Stephen Peles , with Stephen Dembski , Andrew Mead , and Milton Babbitt : The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt

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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM , KBE , PRS Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM

s (Listed in alphabetically order of author’s surname) Kazuyuki Aihara Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo CHAOS AND BIFURCATIONS IN THE HODGKIN-HUXLEY EQUATIONS AND SQUID GIANT AXONS Chaos, or deterministic chaos, is ubiquitous in nonlinear dynamical systems of the real world, including biological systems. Nerve membranes have their own nonlinear dynamics which generate and pr...

Sir G. Stephen on the Plea of Monomania

We give the following sketch from Sir George Stephen's " Juryman's Guide," as illustrative of the opinion of an intelligent jurist on the plea of monomania in criminal cases. " All criminality depends 011 intention, or on a carelessness which amounts to gross negligence: thus, in the case of shooting a man, the absence of intention to kill will relieve the charge from the guilt of murder; but y...

Thoroughly Modern: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen on Criminal Responsibility