professor jean yoyotte, one of the most prominent french egyptologists, holds that perhaps unlike what the egyptians themselves maintain, the fountainhead of everything is not in egypt; yet one has to agree that circa 3000 bc, egypt was indeed much more advanced than its neighboring states. indelible relics, architectural masterpieces, and works of art remaining from that era have reached us th...

or merely theoretical interest, but that it is justified by the fact that the whole subject of terrestrial radiation, the temperature of the surface of our planet, and the conditions of organic life upon it are intimately related to that of our present research. The entire radiation of the soil of our earth towards space goes on in a spectral region of which we have hitherto known nothing. Thes...

Carl Baumann occupies a unique place in the history of the American Institute of Nutrition (AIN) because as a graduate student he made the first oral presentation of research at the first annual scientific meeting of the society, which was held in New York in 1934. Thus, he initiated the tradition of graduate students presenting their research at the annual meeting. He was elected to membership...