I knew Francois Jacob only slightly and yet, ever since graduate school, he has been my constant companion. Hardly a week has gone by without my asking him what he would think of this or that result, this or that sentence in a paper, and so on. What he would have thought of this impertinence I cannot say, because I never really let him know—the discussion went on mostly in my head. And so on he...

H+3 was discovered by J. J. Thomson (1911), who spent most of his research life on studies of the discharges of electricity through gases. He studied negative (cathode) rays and discovered the electron in 1897; he then studied positive (canal) rays, extending Wien’s work, and identi­ ed the proton. When Aston became his assistant in 1910, an early prototype of a mass spectrometer resulted and H...

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary, as Anne Carson puts it in Autobiography of Red [ 3 , p. 46]. For Nelson it has been a long journey, at times a very diffi cult one, but it has been necessary. Necessary for him personally—as he puts it in Possiplex , “I have no alternative but to go on. Like Shackleton of Antarctica I fi nd myself enmeshed in a harsh duty that was not the original pla...

Henry Sigerist (1891-1957) was a leading medical historian of his generation. Restless, energetic, brilliant, charming, the range of his talents equalled that of his interests. Sigerist was born in France of Swiss parents. He received in Zurich, London, Munich, and Leipzig formal education successively in oriental philology, medicine, and medical history and before the end of his career held ap...

Henry Sigerist (1891-1957) was a leading medical historian of his generation. Restless, energetic, brilliant, charming, the range of his talents equalled that of his interests. Sigerist was born in France of Swiss parents. He received in Zurich, London, Munich, and Leipzig formal education successively in oriental philology, medicine, and medical history and before the end of his career held ap...

The subsidiary title of this book is "A sort of biography"; and the publisher's note describes it as "a new departure in auto-biography". Both these claims are true. Dr. Berg, an analyst and the author of several technical works, has chosen to write his autobiography in much the same style as one might expect to hear a life story from the analyst's couch. How far he has succeeded, and how far h...

Mistyka gór [Mountain Mysticism] is a book which has been reprinted several times, translated into languages, and described as “legendary”, especially for those readers who are lovers of mountains. The author – R.E. Rogowski priest, theologian, scholar mountaineer. hybrid nature, lying on the border between literature theology. This article proposes an interpretation this from geopoetics perspe...