Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods an...

Fritz Rohrlich was born in Vienna, Austria, on May 12, 1921, as the only child of the lawyer Egon Rohrlich and his wife Illy, n6e Schwarz. His seven year older half-brother, George, lived with his father's first wife (Rosa Tenzer), but spent his weekends usually at his father's home. George was to play an important role in the life of Fritz. Both of them attended the same high school, the Realg...

Hippocrates, often considered the father of Western medicine, lived in ancient Greece shortly after the building of the Second Temple. Despite his numerous contributions to academic and clinical medicine, Hippocrates is likely best known to modern students of medicine through the Hippocratic Oath, a text attributed to Hippocrates and traditionally administered to students shortly before their g...

The conference banquet provided a rare opportunity for Brian’s colleagues, collaborators, and students, as well as friends and family members to get together, and to share stories about Brian. The guests were delightfully entertained by the “Brian Alspach Quiz” prepared for the occasion by Brooks Reid, who served as the Master of Ceremonies. Brooks has graciously allowed us to include some of h...

In this research work, the effects of flotation parameters on coking coal flotation combustible material recovery (CMR) were studied by the artificial neural networks (ANNs) method. The input parameters of the network were the pulp solid weight content, pH, collector dosage, frother dosage, conditioning time, flotation retention time, feed ash content, and rotor rotation speed. In order to sele...