J. Steigert,* M. Grumann, T. Brenner, K. Mittenbühler, T. Nann, J. Rühe, I. Moser, S. Haeberle, L. Riegger, J. Riegler, W. Bessler, R. Zengerle, and J. Ducrée IMTEK – Lab for MEMS Applications, University of Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Allee 106, 79110 Freiburg, Germany; Lab for Molecular Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Allee 106, 79110 Freiburg, Germany; Materi...

Baltasar-George Sage (1740-1824), a conflictive chemist and mining engineer, and one of the last supporters of the phlogiston theory and the old chemical nomenclature, carried on a large number of metallurgical researches, discovered hypophosphoric acid and solid potassium ferrocyanide. His most achievement was the foundation of the School of Mines of Paris. LIFE AND CAREER In his biography Bal...

Georges Cuvier [4], baptized Georges Jean-Léopold Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scholars recognize Cuvier as a founder of modern comparative anatomy, and as an important contributor to vertebrate paleontology and geology. Cuvier studied the form and funct...