Stanley Cohen [5] was born on 17 November 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a tailor and his mother a housewife who immigrated to the United States from Russia in the early 1900s. Cohen spent his early education in the New York City public school system, and attended the city college, Brooklyn College [9], for his undergraduate studies. Brooklyn College [9] had no tuition, which allowe...

The Medical Research Section of the Indian SnVnre Congress opened its fourth session on Wednesday, the 1st of February 1922. Major J. Cunningham, i.m.S., delivered the presidential address the title of which was " India's debt to Medical Research," and the text of which will be found elsewhere in the current number. After Major Cunningham's address the proceedings on tile first day were as follows

Hilbert's finitist program was not created at the beginning of the twenties solely to counteract Brouwer's intuitionism, but rather emerged out of broad philosophical reflections on the foundations of mathematics and out of detailed logical work; that is evident from notes of lecture courses that were given by Hilbert and prepared in collaboration with Bernays during the period from 1917 to 192...

Hilbert’s finitist programwasnot created at the beginningof the twenties solely to counteract Brouwer’s intuitionism, but rather emerged out of broad philosophical reflections on the foundations of mathematics and out of detailed logical work; that is evident from notes of lecture courses that were given by Hilbert and prepared in collaboration with Bernays during the period from 1917 to 1922. ...

Naturally occurring furanocoumarin compounds psoralen (PRN) and isopsoralen (IPRN) are bioactive constituents found in herbaceous plants. They are widely used as active ingredients in several Chinese herbal medicines. In this study, the CYP1A2 inhibitory potential of PRN and IPRN was investigated in rats in vitro and in vivo as well as in human liver microsomes. Both compounds exhibited reversi...

A licensed obstetrician and gynecologist, Pearl Tang worked to improve the health of women and children in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her work with the Maricopa County Health Department ranged from immunizations to preventing cervical cancer. Tang obtained federal grants and community support to establish various child and maternal health clinics ...

a stroke six years ago in 2000. Thereafter, however, his health remained relatively stable, and during an international symposium in October 2005, celebrating the 40th anniversary of his discovery of troponin, he delivered a speech in English without a draft, as was his usual style, and impressed the scientists who were assembled from all over the world. His condition suddenly worsened a few da...

The recent publication of a biography by his grandson reminded me of Benjamin Moore senior’s contributions on social medicine.1 The book is dedicated to “Dr. G.A.J. Pitt (who first suggested the biography) and in memory of my father, Dr. T. Moore (1900-1999).” The author was born in Cambridge and saw active service as an officer in the Royal Ulster Rifles in the Korean War (1950-1953). He gradu...

When I was first introduced to Abel Gance's La Roue, I was rather interested in the fact that it was released in 1922. I knew that this was also the year that James Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land were published. I began to wonder why this year produced such significant works of modernism. I repeatedly asked a professor of mine, Bruce Kawin, a number of questions about 1922. My...