The Northrop Loom

Northrop Frye's Bible

Words With Power was published in 1990; it is the last of forty books of literary criticism written by its author, Northrop Frye, who died in January 1992 at the age of 78. A recent survey of 950 journals reveals that he remains the eighth most frequently cited author in the arts and humanities, among a company that includes Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Freud. A bibliography of his work and comm...

The butterfly and the loom.

The relationship between structure and function in the brain has an interesting counterpart in the scientific relationship of Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Charles Sherrington. In their search for the principles of organization of the nervous system, both men met at the synapse. For Sherrington, who coined the word 'synapse', the neuron was the functional unit that integrated excitatory and inhibi...

John Howard Northrop

On Ju ly 5, 1981, John Howard Northrop will reach the venerable age of four score and ten. He is active and well for a man of his age but a bit unhappy that his diminished eyesight makes him no longer the skeet supermarksman he once was. The Editors of The Journal of General Physiology and some of Dr. Northrop's friends wish to use this occasion to express their grati tude for his 62-year-long ...

Northrop Grumman Systems

Modification of the Northrop-kunitz Microcataphoresis Cell

A modification of the Northrop-Kunitz microcataphoresis cell is described. Although the theory of von Smoluchowski relating to such systems is in general followed, certain deviations may be encountered which are easily avoided.