The Biography of Doctor Charles Laugier (1875–1830)

Theodor Meyer—Lost pioneer of gas dynamics

Theodor Meyer’s 1908 doctoral dissertation, with Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953) as his advisor, introduced much of what has now become basic gas dynamics: not only the Prandtl–Meyer expansion but also the oblique-shock-wave theory as well. It is arguably the most influential dissertation in all of fluid dynamics. Yet no biography or even a photograph of Meyer has been available in the intervening c...

Revision of the frog fly genus Caiusa Surcouf, 1920 (Diptera, Calliphoridae), with a note on the identity of Plinthomyia emimelania Rondani, 1875.

The Oriental, Australasian and Oceanian genus Caiusa Surcouf, 1920 is revised, species concepts being based on male and female genitalia. A key to males for all known species, and a key to females for all except one are given. All relevant types still in existence have been studied, complete synonymies given and the geographical distribution reconsidered. The eight species included in the genus...

Issels. The biography of a doctor

The quantification of a forced convergence of similar texts: The 1870 and the 1875 Okmulgee Constitution and Levenshteinâ•Žs edit distance metric - Website Announcement & Link

The quantification of a forced convergence of similar texts: The 1870 and the 1875 Okmulgee Constitution and Levenshtein's edit distance metric-Website Announcement & Link" (2012). Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries. Paper 267.

Medicine, Race and the General Good: The Career of Thomas N G Te Water (1857–1926), South African Doctor and Medical Politician

In a recent lecture on the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, Keith Thomas argued that an anti-heroic and democratizing age had subverted the ‘‘Great Man’’ tradition of biography, but that a modern biography, with its distinctive blend of art and science, possessed the interest of looking at individual human agency and the constraints under which it operated, whilst its sharp focus on a noteworthy...