scholarly journals Tullio Levi-Civita, 1873-1941

1942 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Mathematical Literature

The death of Tullio Levi-Civita, following within fifteen months on that of Vita Volterra, removes from the roll of foreign members of the Royal Society the last representative of a great school of mathematics. Both of these mathematicians had in the course of active lives contributed greatly to the high reputation enjoyed by Italian mathematics in general, and the school of mathematics in Rome in particular; both had made many contributions which have found a permanent place in mathematical literature, and both ended their days as victims of a political system which destroyed institutions and liberties in which they were firm believers. Levi-Civita was born in Padua on 29 March 1873, the son of Giaccomo Levi-Civita and his wife, Bice Lattis. The family was a wealthy one, well known for its strong liberal traditions. Giaccomo Levi-Civita was a barrister, jurist and politician, and was for many years mayor of Padua, and a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. As a young man he had served as a volunteer and fought with Garibaldi in the campaign of 1866, and he had played an important part in the Risorgimento. Giaccomo Levi-Civita was anxious that his son should follow in his footsteps as a barrister, but Tullio’s interest in the physical and mathematical sciences was apparent even in early childhood, and when he expressed a wish to follow his own inclinations his father never opposed him; and in later years the son’s eminence in the scientific world was a source of great pride to the father. Consequently, when he completed his classical studies at the Ginnasio-Liceo Tito Livio in his native city at the age of seventeen, Tullio Levi-Civita entered the faculty of science at the university of Padua as a student of mathematics, and four years later he took his degree. Amonst his teachers at the university of Padua were D ’Arcais, Padova, Veronese, and Ricci-Curbastro (known to the scientific world simply as Ricci). The two last-named were the most distinguished, and both had considerable influence on the future career of their brilliant pupil.

scholarly journals George Wallace Kenner, 16 November 1922 - 26 June 1978

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 390-420 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Biographical Memoir ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
The Family ◽  
Organic Chemist ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The University

George Wallace Kenner was born on 16 November 1922 at Sheffield, the younger son of a well known organic chemist James Kenner (1885-1974) who was at that time a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sheffield. Details of the Kenner family’s origins are to be found in the biographical memoir of James Kenner ( Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , 1975, 21, 389) and need not be repeated here. His mother, herself a chemist, I can recall only as a rather ebullient, talkative woman devoted to her two sons, Donald and George, in a family dominated by an aggressive father and kept very much to itself as a result. Before George was two years old the family left England for Australia where in late 1924 his father became Professor of Organic Chemistry (Pure and Applied) in the University of Sydney. Not surprisingly, we know little of George’s time there since the family returned to England in January 1928 when James Kenner was appointed Professor of Technological Chemistry at the Manchester College of Technology. The Kenners took up residence in the Manchester suburb of Withington where the family home remained (nominally at least) until James Kenner’s death in 1974.

scholarly journals First Woman Philosopher with a Doctorate: Elena Cornaro Piscopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Zdeňka Kalnická
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Final Part ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Women Aristocrats ◽  
Women Philosophers ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Venetian Republic

The study analyses the circumstances under which Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman in the world to earn a Doctor degree in Philosophy, which she received from the University of Padua in 1678. The author presents the broader context of the outstanding accomplishment. She points out that, although universities did not allow women to enrol to study, Elena Cornaro managed to earn a doctorate thanks to several favourable circumstances. Of these, the author emphasises the tradition of intellectual centres at Renaissance courts in Italy, which were led by educated women-aristocrats; the development of the Venetian Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which affected the position of women, particularly those from aristocratic families; the openness of universities, namely the Universities of Padua and Bologna. Special attention is given to the family background, life, and studies of Elena Cornaro. The final part of the paper deals with other women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

scholarly journals Bennett Melvill Jones, 28 January 1887 - 31 October 1975

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 252-282
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Gas Engine ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Horse Power

Bennett Melvill Jones was born in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, on 28 January 1887. His mother, Henrietta Cornelia, whose maiden name was Melvill, came from South Africa. The family, on his father’s side, had deep roots in the Birkenhead area, the father, grandfather and great-grandfather having been born there. The father, Benedict Jones, was a graduate of the University of Cambridge, at St John’s College. He was a barrister by profession, with interests in local government and amateur engineering. He was an Alderman of Birkenhead and served as Mayor. Melvill Jones’s mother had first married George William Bennett, and it was following his death that she married Benedict Jones. There were three children by each of the marriages. Melvill Jones married Dorothy Laxton Jotham on 25 November 1916, and they had three children, Margaret born in 1917, Warren born in 1920, and Geoffrey born in 1923. Warren was killed in action in 1940 while piloting an aeroplane over enemy territory. Lady Jones died in 1955. His father’s interest in amateur engineering had a considerable influence on Melvill Jones. In personal papers he relates how, during his school days, he spent his spare time working with his father, helping him construct such things as a dynamo and a half horse-power gas engine to drive it, and a two-seat motor car which ran successfully for over a thousand miles and cruised at 15 miles per hour. He also relates that he had a great admiration for his headmaster at Birkenhead School, and particularly because he was allowed to give up playing cricket so that he could have more time to work with his father on engineering.

scholarly journals Ezer Griffiths, 1888-1962

1962 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Intermediate School ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
The University

Ezer Griffiths was born on 28 November 1888 at Aberdare in Glamorgan. His father, Abraham Lincoln Griffiths, was a colliery mechanic, and he and his wife Ann had nine children, three daughters and six sons of whom Ezer was the eldest son. There was evidently high ability in the family, since in addition to his own distinguished career two of his brothers have also gained good academic positions, and have published books, and another became a rector of a parish. Ezer himself attributed his success in life to the good fortune that there was an excellent Intermediate School at Aberdare, since otherwise he would have gone directly from the elementary school into coal-mining. As it was, he went as a student to University College, Cardiff, and studied physics there. He got First Class Honours, and was awarded a Research Scholarship, and later a Fellowship of the University of Wales. Still later, he proceeded to the degree of D.Sc. in that University. To give his later career briefly, he researched at Cardiff until 1915 and he was then appointed to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. There he remained for the rest of his life. In 1926 he was elected into the Royal Society, and in 1950 he was awarded the O.B.E. He retired from the N.P.L. in 1953.

Youth Culture Features in the Light of Preferred Role Models and Life Styles

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Amel Alić ◽  
Haris Cerić ◽  
Sedin Habibović
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
General Data ◽  
The University

Abstract The aim of this research was to determine to what extent different variables describe the style and way of life present within the student population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this sense, in addition to general data on examinees, gender differences were identified, the assessment of parental dimensions of control and emotion, overall family circumstances, level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity, role models, preferences of lifestyles, everyday habits and resistance and (or) tendencies to depressive, anxiety states and stress. The survey included a sample of 457 examinees, students of undergraduate studies at the University of Zenica and the University of Sarajevo, with a total of 9 faculties and 10 departments covering technical, natural, social sciences and humanities. The obtained data give a broad picture of the everyday life of youth and confirm some previously theoretically and empirically justified theses about the connection of the family background of students, everyday habits, with the level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity and preferences of the role models and lifestyles of the examinees.

scholarly journals Future Healthcare Workers and Hepatitis B Vaccination: A New Generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7783
Author(s):  
Andrea Trevisan ◽  
Paola Mason ◽  
Annamaria Nicolli ◽  
Stefano Maso ◽  
Marco Fonzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Antibody Titer ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Lower Percentage ◽  
Hepatitis B Vaccination ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
One Year ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

Before the introduction of universal vaccination, hepatitis B caused high morbidity and mortality, especially among healthcare workers. In the present study, the immune status against hepatitis B was assessed in a cohort of 11,188 students of the degree courses of the School of Medicine of the University of Padua (Italy) who had been subjected to mandatory vaccination in childhood or adolescence and who will be future healthcare workers. The variables that influence the antibody response to vaccination are mainly the age at which the vaccine was administered and sex. If vaccination was administered before one year of age, there is a high probability (around 50%) of having an antibody titer lower than 10 IU/L compared to those vaccinated after one year of age (12.8%). The time between vaccine and analysis is not decisive. Furthermore, female sex, but only if vaccination was administered after one year of age, shows a significant (p = 0.0008) lower percentage of anti-HBs below 10 IU/L and a greater antibody titer (p < 0.0001). In conclusion, the differences related to the age of vaccination induce more doubts than answers. The only plausible hypothesis, in addition to the different immune responses (innate and adaptive), is the type of vaccine. This is not easy to verify because vaccination certificates rarely report it.

scholarly journals Address of the President Sir Robert Robinson, at the anniversary meeting, 1 December 1947

1947 ◽  
Vol 135 (878) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Living Cell ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
New Science ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Intimate Association ◽  
Scientific Life

The names that have just been recounted include those of many outstanding personalities in the scientific world and it would not be fitting to attempt even brief appreciations of their manifold services on this occasion. An exception must, however, be made when we mourn such giants as two of the deceased Fellows. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, O. M., was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1905; he delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1915, was Royal Medallist in 1918 and Copley Medallist in 1926. He was President of the Society from 1930 to 1935. Such are the bare facts, and though we are proud of his intimate association with the Royal Society, we do not now think of a Lecturer, a Medallist, or even of a President. Our memory dwells rather on the lovable qualities and magnanimous spirit of a devoted teacher and leader, and on the influence of his generous help to others as well as of his personal achievements during almost seventy years of scientific life. He was early imbued with the conviction that the chemistry of the living cell was his subject, that it was not only of transcendent importance, but also that it was ripe for development. He dedicated himself to the quest and embarked with enthusiasm on a pioneering voyage of discovery. The outcome of his courage and industry was the foundation of a new scientific discipline, if not of a new science. He was the father of modern schools of biochemistry and was the greatest biochemist of his generation.

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