The Burghölzli centenary.

Sabina Spielrein. Jung's patient at the Burghölzli.

It was at the beginning of the 1880s that hypnosis and suggestion were introduced by August Forel at the Burghölzli. In 1887 he had deepened his knowledge in these areas with Bernheim and Liébeault in Nancy. Forel’s work on memory indicates that his psychological method was related ultimately to a biological model of human functioning. At the same time, however, his connection with the Nancy sc...

N ov 2 00 0 Steps to the Planck Function : A Centenary Reflection T Richard

The year 2000 marks the centenary of the Planck function for the blackbody spectral distribution. Here are traced the steps, over 100 years, along the path leading to this important formula.

Auguste Forel on ants and neurology.

Auguste Forel was born in 1848 in the French part of Switzerland. He developed a lifelong passion for myrmecology in his childhood, but chose medicine and neuropsychiatry to earn his living. He first undertook a comparative study of the thalamus under Theodor Meynert in Vienna and then, from 1872 to 1879, he worked as Assistant Physician to Bernhard von Gudden in Munich. This led in 1877 to his...

The centenary of the discovery of platinum in the Bushveld Complex (10 November, 1906)

The story of Dr. Hans Merensky’s discoveries of the platinum-rich pipes and the Merensky Reef itself in 1924 have been well documented (Cawthorn, 1999; Scoon and Mitchell, 2004, and references therein), but the events that preceded it have not been summarized. In the probable centenary year of the first report of platinum in the Bushveld it is appropriate to review the events between 1906 and 1...

The Centenary of Radiology