Biographical

Hennig is best known for developing phylogenetic systematics, a coherent theory of the investigation and presentation of the relations that exist among species. Contrary to the position generally held during his time, Hennig viewed historical inference as a strictly logical and scientific endeavor (Dupuis, 1984). He first summarized his ideas in 1950, in Grundzüge einer Theorie der Phylogenetischen Systematik (Hennig, 1950). Hennig became even more widely known with the publication of an English revision, Phylogenetic Systematics (Hennig, 1966), of the earlier German work.

The National Institutes of Health is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. It is an Agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Euler Project means to help make available in English some of the works of the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)

The National Inventors Hall of Fame™ honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.

Each year, the Selection Committee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation selects inventors for induction. These are selected from a field of people nominated by peers and the public. The Selection Committee includes representatives from the leading national scientific and technical organizations.

Il "Centro Studi Lazzaro Spallanzani di Scandiano" è stato costituito ufficialmente, con l'assemblea dei soci fondatori che ha provveduto all'approvazione dello Statuto e all'elezione delle cariche direttive, il 24 ottobre 1992. Di fatto, però, esso operava già da alcuni anni in modo informale grazie al fattivo contributo di un comitato promotore e alla indispensabile collaborazione con l'Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune e la Biblioteca Comunale "G. Salvemini" di Scandiano.

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Justus Liebig, whose name was given to the Giessen university after the second world war, taught here from 1824 to 1852 as professor of chemistry. In the rooms of his former institute a museum was opened in 1920. It is one of the six most important chemistry museums in the world*) and a historical of highest value, because it is here where the most important german chemist laid the experimental foundations for his influential innovations.

Lecture 16: "The Starry Messenger":
Galileo Galilei & the Telescope

John Charles Fields was born in Hamilton, Ontario, then Upper Canada, in 1863. His father operated a leather shop at 32 King St. West, and the family lived nearby at 150 King St. East. (Both of these buildings have long since disappeared–the site of the shop is now occupied by Jackson Square, a shopping complex, and that of the house by a Ramada Inn).

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Louis Pasteur
Chemist

1822 - 1895
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," is one of the most important in medical history. His work became the foundation for the science of microbiology, and a cornerstone of modern medicine.