-
The Problem of Anabiosis or Latent Life: History and Current Concept
David Keilin
D. Keilin. Leeuwenhoek Lecture: The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concept, 1959
Inscribed by author
Abstract
The eight previous Leeuwenhoek Lectures covered a great variety of problems is bacteriology and virology, and each of the lecturers paid an enthusiastic tribute Antony van Leeuwenhoek as the founder of microbiology. When the Council honored me by their invitation to deliver the ninth Leeuwenhoek Lecture I thought that it would be appropriate to devote it to the problem of anabiosis or latent life.
David Keilin (21 March 1887 – 27 February 1963) was a Jewish scientist focusing mainly on entomology. He made extensive contributions to entomology and parasitology during his career. He published thirty-nine papers between 1914 and 1923 on the reproduction of lice, the life-cycle of the horse bot-fly, the respiratory adaptations in fly larvae, and other subjects. He is most known for his research and rediscovery of cytochrome in the 1920s (he invented the name). It had been discovered by C. A. MacMunn in 1884, but that discovery had been forgotten or misunderstood. .
-
Die Variolation im achtzehnten Jahrhundert
Arnold C. Klebs
Arnold C. Klebs. Die Variolation im achtzehnten Jahrhundert, 1914
-
The History of Medicine as a Subject of Teaching and Research
Arnold C. Klebs
Arnold C. Klebs. The History of Medicine as a Subject of Teaching and Research, 1914
Arnold C. Klebs (1870-1943) was a Swiss physician who specialized in the study of tuberculosis. Born in Bern, Switzerland, Arnold Klebs, the son of renowned bacteriologist Edwin Klebs, was raised in the presence of an extensive array of scientists, artists, and historians. Klebs worked with William Osler at Johns Hopkins University for a year after arriving in the U.S. and was a contemporary of William H. Welch. Following his work with Osler, he worked as a sanatorium director and tuberculosis specialist in Citronelle, Alabama and Chicago, Illinois. Given his long experience with the ailment, Klebs was named one of the first directors of the National Tuberculosis Institute.
-
The Sugar of the Blood
J.J. R. Macleod
J.J.R. Macleod. The Sugar of the Blood, 1921
John James Rickard Macleod (1876 – 1935) was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first.
-
On the Broadening of Spectral Lines
Albert A. Michelson
A.A. Michelson. On the broadening of spectral lines, 1895
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 – 1931) was a Poland-born (at this time occupied militarily by Prussia) Polish-American physicist of Jewish religion, known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was the founder and the first head of the physics departments of Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) and the University of Chicago.
-
Pawlow's Theory of the Function of the Central Nervous System and a Digest of Some of the More Recent Contributions to This Subject From Pawlow's Laboratory
S. Mogulis
S. Mogulis. Pawlow's Theory of the Function of the Central Nervous System and a Digest of Some of the More Recent Contributions to This Subject From Pawlow's Laboratory, 1914
With an author’s inscription to Professor Jacques Loeb
-
The History of Modern Physics in its Bearing Upon Biology and Medicine
Filmer Northrop
F.S.C. Northrop. The History of Modern Physics in its Bearing Upon Biology and Medicine, 1938
Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop (1893 - 1992) was an American legal philosopher and influential comparative philosopher.
After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College in 1915, and an MA from Yale University in 1919, he went on to Harvard University where he earned another MA in 1922 and a Ph.D. in 1924.[1] At Harvard, Northrop studied under Alfred North Whitehead. He was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1923 as an instructor in Philosophy, and later was named professor in 1932. In 1947 he was appointed Sterling Professor of Philosophy and Law. He chaired the Philosophy department from 1938 to 1940 and was the first Master of Silliman College, from 1940 to 1947.
He was the author of twelve books and innumerable articles on all major branches of philosophy. His most influential work, The Meeting of East and West, was published in 1946 at the aftermath of World War II. Its central thesis is that East and West both must learn something from each other to avoid future conflict and to flourish together. His jurisprudential work primarily concerned sociological jurisprudence.
-
Die Besondere Labilität der Inneren Hemmung Bedingter Reflexe
Ivan P. Pawlow
Ivan P. Pawlow. Die besondere Labilität der inneren Hemmung bedingter Reflexe, 1914
First Edition. Author's offprint.
-
Ein Neues Laboratorium zur Erforschung der Bedingten Reflexe
Ivan P. Pawlow
I. P. Pawlow. Ein neues Laboratorium zur Erforschung der bedingten Reflexe, 1911
First Edition Offprint Issue
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist, psychologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.
Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for his studies of the physiology of digestion, which revealed the part that the nervous system plays in controlling digestive secretions. In conducting his physiological researches, Pavlov introduced the method of long-term or continuous experimentation, which—in contrast with traditional vivisectional methods—allowed him to study the operation of physiological processes in healthy animals under normal conditions over extended periods of time. His investigations of the nervous system’s role in digestion led him to explore the phenomenon of “psychic” stimulation; i.e., salivary secretion prompted by the sight or smell of food rather than by direct contact. In Pavlov’s hands this became a powerful tool for investigating the functions of the cerebral cortex and the physiology of behavior. The most famous outcome of his researches is, of course, the artificial conditioned reflex, in which physiological processes such as salivation are arbitrarily associated with stimuli such as the ringing of a bell.
Pavlov presented this offprint, discussing a new laboratory for studying conditioned reflexes, to the British physiologist Ernest Henry Starling, co-discoverer (with Bayliss) of pancreatic secretin and co-developer (again with Bayliss) of the theory of hormonal control of internal secretion. Pavlov had been a strong advocate of the “nervist” doctrine of physiology, which held that the nervous system controlled most body activities; however, Starling and Bayliss’s discovery of secretin, which confirmed the humoral (rather than nervous) transmission of impulses from the intestine to the pancreas, forced Pavlov to rework his theories of digestion (see Babkin, Pavlov, pp. 228-230). ----- Magill, The Nobel Prize Winners: Physiology or Medicine, pp. 61-68.
-
Über die Ein und Demselben Eiweißfermente Zukommende Proteolytische und Milchkoagulierende Wirkung Verschiedener Verdauungssäfte
Ivan P. Pawlow and S. W. Parastschuk
Ivan P. Pawlow and S.W. Parastschuk. Über die ein und demselben Eiweißfermente zukommende proteolytische und milchkoagulierende Wirkung verschiedener Verdauungssäfte, 1904
-
Die Brownsche Bewegung und die wahre Existenz der Moleküle
Jean B. Perrin
Perrin, J. Die Brownsche Bewegung und die wahre Existenz der Moleküle, 1910
Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870-1942) was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.
-
The Haemocyanins
Albert C. Redfield
Alfred C. Redfield. The Haemocyanins, 1934
Abstract: As yet we know comparatively little about haemocyanin. especially with regard to its relation to oxygen. It is a matter which would well repay investigation to determine whether it has the remarkable properties which haemoglobin has in this respect. properties which are at present unique. (Bayliss, Principles of General Physiology, 1915.)
Alfred Clarence Redfield (1890 – 1983) was an American oceanographer known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in plankton and ocean water. In 1966, he received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America. His research was used by James Lovelock in the formulation of the Gaia hypothesis, that "Organisms and their environment evolve as a single, self-regulating system." From 1918 to 1924, Redfield worked with Elizabeth M. Bright on studies that involved the effects of radiation and Nereis. In collaboration the team published 12 papers.
During his doctoral research, he studied the mechanism of horned toad skin coloration, identifying adrenaline as the primary control of skin coloration. He later studied the effects of X rays and radium radiation on the physiological action.
Following his graduation, he went on to study marine biology. He studied hemocyanin, which is the blood pigment of many invertebrate species, which binds oxygen, and characterized its physiological behavior.
-
A modified Ьethod for the Manufacture of Insulin
T. Brailsford Robertson
T. Brailsford Robertson. A modified method for the manufacture of insulin, 1923
1923 – Insulin manufactured in Australia for the first time. Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson obtained a license from Toronto’s Insulin committee to prepare insulin in Australia. As a result, insulin was manufactured for the first time in Australia at the University of Adelaide. Robertson also devised a way of producing insulin more cheaply, quickly and in greater volume than anywhere else in the world.
-
Further Explanatory Remarks Concerning the Chemical Mechanics of Cell-Division
T. Brailsford Robertson
T. Brailsford Robertson. Further Explanatory Remarks Concerning the Chemical Mechanics of Cell-Division, 1913
-
Note on the Synthesis of a Protein Through the Action of Pepsin
T. Brailsford Robertson
T. Brailsford Robertson. Note on the synthesis of a protein through the action of pepsin, 1907
Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.
