William Thomas Green Morton, the man most commonly associated with the introduction of anesthesia in 1846, fathered William James Morton. William James Morton's contributions to society were substantial. He conducted pioneering work in radiology, radiation oncology, and therapeutic electricity. He authored numerous textbooks and articles, and he was an editor of a journal on human behavior. His...

The Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) formulation of treasury bonds in terms of forward rates is recast as a problem in path integration. The HJM model is generalized to the case where all the forward rates are allowed to fluctuate independently. The resulting theory is shown to be a two-dimensional Gaussian quantum field theory. The no arbitrage condition is obtained and a functional integral derivati...

The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of vitamin A with itsmaximum near 328 m,. was described nearly 20 years ago (Morton & Heilbron, 1928a, b). The intensity of absorption shown at that wave length by a fish-liver oil or concentrate was conveniently expressed in terms of E "lo 328 m,u. (Gillam & Morton, 1929), and this magnitude was early seen to afford a guide to potency. If a number of fish-li...