Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1866-1945

1947 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 451-466 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Family ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan, born 25 September 1866 at Lexington, Kentucky, was the elder son of Charlton Hunt Morgan of that State. His mother, Ellen Key Howard, was from Baltimore. There were two younger children in the family, of whom his sister Ellen survives him. From the University of Kentucky, Morgan graduated B.S. 1886 and proceeded to postgraduate work in the same University, later removing to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where he took his Ph.D. in 1890. From that date his academic career falls into three periods: From 1891 to 1904 he was Professor of Zoology at Bryn Mawr College for women ; 1904 to 1928, Professor of Experimental Zoology at Columbia, New York ; while from 1928 to 1945 he was Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, as director of the William G. Kerckhoff laboratories .

Harry Bateman, 1882-1946

1947 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 590-618 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Division 1 ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Harry Bateman was born on 29 May 1882 in Manchester, the son of Samuel Bateman, a pharmaceutical chemist, and his wife Marnie Elizabeth, nee Bond. From Manchester Grammar School he gained an entrance scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, coming into residence in 1900. In June 1903 he took his degree as Senior Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos (bracketed with P. E. Marrack). A year later he took Part II of the Mathematical Tripos, being placed in Class I, Division 1, and after yet another year he was awarded the Smith’s Prize for an essay on differential equations and became a Fellow of Trinity College. The years 1905 and 1906 were spent in travel on the continent and study in Göttingen and Paris. Instead of considering his publications in order, we shall group them according to their subjects and consider in each group the most interesting papers only. As this method disrupts the chronological order we shall first notice briefly the most important biographical details. After his return from the continent of Europe, Bateman was appointed to a lectureship at Liverpool University, a position which he exchanged in 1907 for that of a reader in mathematical physics at the University of Manchester. In 1910 he removed to the United States, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. For two years he was a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College; and from 1912 to 1915 a Johnston Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, incidentally taking his Ph.D. degree in 1913, a procedure curious in a man of his eminence. (At this time he had published some sixty papers, among them his celebrated researches on the Maxwell equations, and the monumental report on integral equations.) After this he became lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, an appointment which he held until 1917 when he finally settled down in Pasadena, holding chairs in mathematics, theoretical physics, and aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology. The manifold character of his appointments is an indication of his versatility and encyclopedic learning.

scholarly journals Derek William Moore. 19 April 1931 — 15 July 2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
J. T. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Goddard Space Flight Center ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

Derek Moore was born in South Shields and studied at the local grammar school, from which he gained an Exhibition to Jesus College, Cambridge. However, before going to Cambridge he did his National Service in the Royal Air Force and was stationed in Yorkshire, where one of his fellow personnel was the poet Ted Hughes. He entered Jesus College in 1951, studying for the Mathematical Tripos, which he gained in 1954, and for Part III, which he gained in 1955. He then became a research student in applied mathematics and theoretical fluid mechanics under the supervision of Dr Ian Proudman and was awarded a PhD degree of the University of Cambridge in 1958. Thereafter he held positions at the University of Bristol, the Goddard Space Flight Center, New York, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Imperial College, London, where he spent the major part of his career. He became distinguished for the Moore-Spiegel oscillator and the Moore singularity. Moreover he had a strong interest in jazz, which is the subject of an appreciation by Peter Batten.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Marie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
White House ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Woman Suffrage Movement

Women are learning something men have traditionally understood: money provides access. —Karen D. Stone Philanthropy lies at the heart of women’s history. —Kathleen D. McCarthy Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, Katharine Dexter McCormick wrote checks totaling millions of dollars to advance political, economic, and personal freedom and independence for women. She gave her time and money to the woman suffrage movement, funded a dormitory for women at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to encourage women’s education in science, and almost single-handedly financed the development of the birth control pill. McCormick opposed the militant tactics of some suffragists—such as picketing the White House—which were bankrolled by another woman, Alva Belmont, a southerner who stunned New York society when she divorced William K. Vanderbilt, inheritor of the Vanderbilt fortune. With her flair for the dramatic, Belmont brought crucial publicity to the woman suffrage movement and wielded power with her money, giving tens of thousands of dollars to the national suffrage associations under certain conditions—for example, that organization offices be moved; that she be given a leadership position; and, later, that the movement focus on international women’s rights. Mary Garrett, another generous supporter of the suffrage movement, also understood the coercive power of philanthropy, paying the salary of the dean at Bryn Mawr College—but only if that dean was her partner, M. Carey Thomas—and orchestrating a half-million-dollar gift to Johns Hopkins University to open a medical school, with the condition that the school admit women. These monied women, and many like them, understood that their money gave them clout in society at a time when most women held little power....

scholarly journals Guest Editor's Preface: The Eighth International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Schilling
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Turbulent Mixing ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
California Institute ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

This issue of Laser and Particle Beams contains 27 contributed articles based on presentations given at the eighth International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (IWPCTM) (see http://www.llnl.gov/IWPCTM), held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California from December 9 to 14, 2001, and organized jointly by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the California Institute of Technology. This conference is the eighth in a biennial series of conferences on the general subject of experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies of compressible turbulent mixing, initiated by LLNL in the late 1980s. Previous conferences were held in Princeton, New Jersey (1988), Pleasanton, California (1989), Royaumont, France (1991), Cambridge, United Kingdom (1993), Stony Brook, New York (1995), Marseille, France (1997), and St. Petersburg, Russia (1999). The ninth IWPCTM is to be held at the University of Cambridge in 2004.

Introduction to Learning Management Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 1280-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane D. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
State University ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The University

Formal university-based distance education has been around for over 100 years. For example, Cornell University established the Correspondence University in 1882, and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in New York was awarding degrees via correspondence courses in 1883 (Nasseh, 1997). Soon many other educational institutions, including the University of Chicago, Penn State University, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University were offering these non-traditional learning options for their students. With the entry of the personal computer into homes and workplaces in the 1980s, learning started to become more technologydriven. However, it was not until the 1990s, with the proliferation of the World Wide Web, that the concept of technology-enhanced education began to change drastically.

scholarly journals Valentine Louis Telegdi. 11 January 1922 — 8 April 2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Laurie M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Wolfgang Pauli ◽  
Electromagnetic Interactions ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Experimental Physicist ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Valentine Telegdi was an outstandingly original experimental physicist who contributed greatly to our understanding of the weak and electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles. Outspoken and colourful in expression, Telegdi (usually called ‘Val’) had the reputation of being a ‘conscience of physics’, known for his incisive and sometimes acerbic wit. In this respect he was reminiscent of Wolfgang Pauli, one of his teachers, whom he greatly admired. However, Val could be warm and caring to friends, professional associates and students. After receiving his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1950, he began his academic career at the University of Chicago in 1951, and his reputation grew rapidly. In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1972 the University of Chicago appointed him as the first Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics.

Western Faculty Profile: Dr. Martin Houde

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Lieng
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
First Year ◽  
California Institute ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Canada Research Chair ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Dr. Martin Houde is a Full Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western University. With experience at the California Institute of Technology’s Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii and three degrees from the University of Montréal, Dr. Houde brings his wealth of knowledge in the fields of star formation, extraterrestrial chemistry, and astrophysical instrumentation to Western. His research focuses on how the interactions between basic physical processes like magnetism and chemical reactions lead to the formation of stars while experience from the California Institute of Technology allows Dr. Houde to continually develop and enhance astrophysical instrumentation that enables researchers to further explore what lies beyond our galaxy. He is also the Canada Research Chair in Star Formation and teaches courses in Physics and Astronomy at Western. Brandon Lieng, First Year Representative with WURJHNS, interviewed Dr. Houde to learn more about his background, work, experience, and insights on the field of research.

Becoming A Geologist: Florence Bascom and Johns Hopkins, 1888-1895

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The University

Florence Bascom (1862-1945) was a petrologist and field geologist at Bryn Mawr College who provided a basic description and interpretation of major areas of Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. This paper is the second of a two-part study that explores the question of how Bascom became a geologist. The first part dealt with Bascom's early history in Wisconsin, from the time she went to Madison at the age of 12 to her completion of a Master of Science degree in Microscopic Lithology under Roland D. Irving (1847-1888) at the University Of Wisconsin in 1887.This second part of the study begins with Bascom's experience teaching at Rockford Seminary in Illinois, where she was exposed to Mary E. Holmes (1850-1906). who had obtained a doctorate in paleontology from the University of Michigan. It then details the extension of Bascom's education from a limited laboratory-based experience to involvement in field work with George Huntington Williams (1856-1894) at Johns Hopkins University in the years 1891-1893. Johns Hopkins did not officially admit women to graduate study then. Nevertheless, on the basis of combined field and laboratory research in the Monterey district of Pennsylvania, Bascom received the first doctorate granted to a woman at the University. She was then hired as an Assistant in Geology by Edward Orton (1829-1899), at Ohio State University, a highly unusual appointment at that time. In addition to teaching, she was engaged in field and laboratory work at Ohio State until 1895, when she was hired by Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935) at Bryn Mawr.

Touched by Fire by I. N. Watts

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Her Family ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Watts, Irene N., Touched by Fire. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2013. Print.In the first decade of the 20th century, Miriam Markovitz and her family have fled their small town in the country to live in Kiev. She and her family are Jewish and the Tsar does not favor Jews. After narrowly escaping the pogroms, Miriam’s father Sam dreams of taking the whole family to America. Known as the “Golden Land”, in America Jews are free of persecution.     Over the next few years the family relocates to Berlin where Miriam’s parents and grandparents work hard to save enough money. The plan is for Sam to travel to New York ahead of the family. Miriam is fourteen years old when the first set of tickets to America arrives in the mail from her father. Leaving on the adventure of their lives, the Markovitz family must endure illnesses, family quarrels, and filth. For Miriam it seems crossing the ocean is the hardest thing she has very done, but she is destined to witness an even worse tragedy in her new country.     Touched By Fire is an enlightening story that brings to light many of the injustices Jews were forced to face, long before the anti-Semitism of the Nazis’ era. It is easy to form an attachment to the characters, and I found myself hoping and worrying for the Markovitz family. Miriam is especially vivid and comes out clearly as a strong and self-sacrificing heroine.These positive points aside, there were some peculiarities about this book that stood out in my mind. Firstly, Miriam’s journey is relatively tame, especially when you consider how graphic young adult literature has become. While there is a fair share of danger and hardship in the journey, Watts has left the harsher struggles to be faced by minor characters, leaving Miriam as merely a witness. I would also have liked more development of the characters Miriam met along the way. Leaving these characters underdeveloped reduced the impact of their struggles and made Miriam’s feelings about them somewhat flat. Finally, I must admit to some puzzlement as to why Watts chose to give the book the title Touched By Fire, as it refers strictly to the tragedy detailed in the conclusion, when most of the book’s focus is on Miriam’s journey and her maturation.In considering these criticisms alongside the overall story, I found myself divided as to how I felt about the book. I have to conclude that younger readers may not be drawn to these inconsistences and nuances, but would rather enjoy the story for the picture it paints of the time period. I have therefore given the book three out four stars. Touched by Fire is most suitable for children ages 9-13 and would be enjoyed by young readers that enjoy historical fiction.Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Hanne PearceHanne Pearce has worked at the University of Alberta Libraries in various support staff positions since 2004 and is currently a Public Service Assistant at the Rutherford Humanities and Social Sciences Library. In 2010 she completed her MLIS at the University of Alberta. Aside from being an avid reader she has continuing interests in writing, photography, graphic design and knitting.

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