William S. Clark, Ph.D.

The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology (with William Clark and Dorothy S. Thomas)

William Graeme Laver PhD, FRS (1929–2008)

After the Burnet School at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne changed its focus from influenza to immunology, the influenza research program moved with Frank Fenner's group to ANU, where it was anchored by Stephan Fazekas de St. Groth. There the pioneering influenza work of Sir MacFarlane Burnet continued, with Graeme Laver as biochemist and Stephan Fazekas as the mathematical mod...

Two doctors Harvey: William (1578-1657); Samuel Clark (1886-1953).

Preparations for this contribution to the 1979 History of Surgery Lecture at the Yale University School of Medicine were begun in the autumn of 1978, the year which marked the four hundredth anniversary of William Harvey's birth. It was the present writer's original intention to honor the memory of that great medical scientist with a brief biographical note and critique. However, as the researc...

Remix : Andy Clark ʼ s Being There

Introduction In 2005 I left a successful career as a consultant and designer in the children’s new media industry to reenter the academic world. I was interested in how and why different forms of new media might impact children’s experiences and their cognitive development. So much of what I saw in industry was driven by market and business demands and by novelty – being first to market – rathe...

William Congreve ’ S Rational Rockets

This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...