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...

and many clinicians overcame the stultifying effects of the Brunonian theory. Francesco Torrigiani sought post-mortem confirmation of his bedside diagnoses, and Antonio Catellacci wrote a good account of the yellow fever-although Torrigiani accused him of plagiarizing it. Amongst the twenty short biographies is one of Giuseppe Bertini (1722-1845), the first professor of the philosophical histor...

■ CONTENTS Streamlining Data Acquisition: The First Step B Data Alignment B Automated Metabolomics B Data Streaming For Cloud-Based Metabolomics C Feature Analysis C Mass Spectral Annotations C Credentialing D Calculating Mass Measurement Errors D Statistical Analysis: Visualization and Deconvolution E Targeted Validation F Pathway Analysis: Putting Metabolomic Data into a Biological Context F ...

for the first time in English an authentic treatise on this subject. Such a work could only be the product of a master of his subject and Palmer Findley has long been recognized as a leader in American Obstetrics. Bearing in mind that "History is the essence of innumerable biographies" the author has used this approach to the subject with great effectiveness. The great personalities of obstetri...

1 Initial situation When you search the web nowadays for broad information of a specific topic you often have to visit several pages and then combine the information found there to have it in a usable form. The examples used in this project are biographies of impressionist artists. If you want extensive information about a specific artist you probably won’t find it on one single page. So the ai...

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...

Jean-André Rochoux (1787-1852) can be considered the author, in 1812, of the first clinical and neuropathological description of cerebral hemorrhage and ischemia, based on concepts that underlie current vascular neurology. His biography reveals how his thinking was shaped by materialist philosophy, which was also the basis of his rigorous scientific reasoning. Due to his intransigent defence of...

In modern societies the labor market integration of each individual demands the central task of integration. Nevertheless “job integration” or a successful occupational life course depends not only upon his or her motivation or attention to the job directly, but is also a function of his or her qualification or biography and of his or her embedding into a preferred social environment. Using a s...