Statement of the ‘Population Summit’ of the World's Scientific Academies, held in New Delhi, India, during 24 to 27 October 1993

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-327 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Population ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Royal Swedish Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
If Current ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Academies

Representatives of national academies of science from throughout the world met in New Delhi, India, from 24 to 27 October 1993, in a ‘Science Summit’ on World Population. The conference grew out of two earlier meetings—one of the Royal Society of London and the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the other being an international conference organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Statements published by both groups expressed a sense of urgent concern about the expansion of the world's population and concluded that if current predictions of population growth prove accurate and patterns of human activity on the planet remain unchanged, science and technology may not be able to prevent irreversible degradation of the natural environment and continued poverty for much of the world.

Environmental scientists: advocates as well?

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORMAN MYERS
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Credibility ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Policy Arena

What should be the response of environmental scientists when the world and the Earth appear to be heading toward exceptional crisis? Some scientists have signed up to public assertions that there indeed could be environmental Armageddon ahead (e.g. Union of Concerned Scientists 1992; US National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London 1992). Other scientists proclaim that our most valuable resource is not environmental well-being but professional credibility; the 'cry wolf' risk is the key determinant. Others appear to prefer to be scientists pure and simple, eschewing the policy arena, let alone the political scrum. Still others seem to think that warning of prospective crisis, even warning amongst themselves, is out of protocol's court.

scholarly journals Understanding the human brain: A lifetime of dedicated pursuit

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenjie Xia
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Montreal Neurological Institute ◽  
Temporal Lobes ◽  
Important Landmark ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Distinguished Contribution ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

As a pioneer in the field of neuropsychology, Dr. Brenda Milner has contributed to many important landmark discoveries in the study of memory and temporal lobes, the lateralization of hemispheric function in language, as well as the role of frontal lobes in problem-solving. She is a fellow of the Royal Society (London) and the Royal Society of Canada, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). She has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards throughout her career, the latest of which include the Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award in 2001, the Neuroscience Award from the United States National Academy of Science in 2004 and the Gairdner Award in 2005. Dr. Milner received her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in 1939 and completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Donald Hebb at McGill University in 1952. She joined the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1950 to work with Dr. Wilder Penfield. Dr. Milner is presently the Dorothy J. Killam Professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery of McGill University. I spent an afternoon with Dr. Milner on May 12th, 2006, where she shared with me her thoughts on her work, her perspective on the past and future of cognitive neuroscience, as well as her advice for students beginning in research.

United Kingdom activities

1964 ◽  
Vol 281 (1387) ◽  
pp. 445-450
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Bilateral Agreement ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The U.S

The first formal moves which were to lead eventually to satellite Ariel I, the first international ionosphere satellite, took place at the second meeting of cospar, the Committee on Space Research set up by the International Council of Scientific Unions. At this meeting, in the Hague in March 1959, the U.S. delegate, on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences, announced that the United States were prepared to launch satellites containing scientific instruments designed and constructed in other countries. The U.K. delegate to COSPAR, Sir Harrie Massey, on behalf of the Royal Society took the initiative in exploring further this offer; as a result of negotiations with H.M. Government financial support was assured, enabling firm plans to be considered which led eventually to a bilateral agreement between the two Governments, the nominated agencies being respectively the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.) and the Office of the Minister for Science (see Reference).

scholarly journals IX. Observations upon so much of Monsieur le Monnier the younger's memoir, lately presented to the Royal Society, as relates to the communicating the electric virtue to non-electrics; by Wm. Watson, F. R. S

1746 ◽  
Vol 44 (482) ◽  
pp. 388-395
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The World is much obliged to Mons. le Monnier for the many Discoverics he has made of the Power of Electricity; though the Reason of my troubling you with this Paper at this time, is my differing with that Gentleman in the Conclusions which he deduces from several of the Experiments contain’d in his Memoir lately presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris , his own Extract of which was lately communicated to the Royal Society .

Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
School Life ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Long Period ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.

Mathematics, Peace, and the Cold War

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 556-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brit Shields
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This paper seeks to combine studies of émigré scientists, Cold War American science, and cultural histories of mathematical communities by analyzing Richard Courant’s participation in the National Academy of Sciences interacademy exchange program with the Soviet Union in the 1960s. Following his dismissal by the Nazi government from his post as Director of the Göttingen Mathematics Institute in 1933, Courant spent a year at the University of Cambridge, and then immigrated to the United States where he developed the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Courant’s participation with the National Academy of Sciences interacademy exchange program at the end of his career highlights his ideologies about the mathematics discipline, the international mathematics community, and the political role mathematicians could play in contributing to international peace through scientific diplomacy. Courant’s Cold War scientific identity emerges from his activities as an émigré mathematician, institution builder, and international “ambassador.”

scholarly journals ПАМ’ЯТІ АКАДЕМІКА НАН УКРАЇНИ ЮРІЯ РОМАНОВИЧА ШЕЛЯГА-СОСОНКА (10.01.1933 – 14.12.2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
M. M. Barna ◽  
L. S. Barna
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
State Prize ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
The World ◽  
Green Book ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Yu. R. Sheliah-Sosonko, an outstanding Ukrainian scientist in the field of geobotany, phytocenology, floristry, phytogeography, phytosozology, ecology, a public figure, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctor of biological sciences, professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology and the N.G. Kholodny Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Geobotany of the N.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine passed away at the age of 87, on December 14, 2019. The main areas of scientific research of Yu. R. Sheliah-Sosonko include the development of typology, the composition of cenopopulation, cenogenesis and protection of nemoral forests of the European part of the USSR. The name of Yuri Romanovych Sheliah-Sosonko is associated with the research into the theory of geobotany and classification of vegetation, zoning, mapping, species association, evolution of vegetation cover. He developed a theory of the formation of the cenopopulation structure of species, as well as the classification of species and phytocoenotypes. He put forward and grounded the idea of phytocenogenetic classification of vegetation, the foundations of the evolutionary-cenotic study of vegetation formations. Under the supervision of Yurii Romanovych, the world’s first "Green Book of Ukraine" was compiled and published, laying the foundation for the Convention on Biodiversity. He was the first to suggest a method of paradigmatic analysis of geobotanical knowledge. The results of thorough geobotanical and phytocenological studies are summarized in the monographs: "Common oak forests on the territory of Ukraine and their evolution" (1974), "Methodology of geobotany", "Green Book of the Ukrainian SSR" (1987), "Red Book of Ukraine. Plant world "/ Yu. R. Sheliah-Sosonko (editor-in-chief) (1996) and others. He is the author of over 500 scientific works, including 34 monographs. He supervised 8 doctors and 37 candidates of biological sciences, and the scientific geobotanical school he founded is recognized by the world scientific community. The scientists, teachers and students of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University express their condolences. This is a great loss for the whole botanical science of Ukraine, Europe and the world. Finally, it should be mentioned that as long as there are such scientists as Academician Yurii Romanovych Sheliah-Sosonko and his grateful students, Ukrainian science will never cease to thrive. The memory of Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yurii Romanovych Sheliah-Sosonko, an outstanding scientist-geobotanist, a public figure, a man of honour, will forever remain in the hearts of his relatives, friends, colleagues and students.

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