Archibald Read Richardson, 1881-1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 223-237
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
South African War ◽  
Pure Mathematics ◽  
College Course ◽  
Aeronautical Science ◽  
Matriculation Examination ◽  
The University

Archibald Read Richardson was born on 21 August 1881 of English parents: he was the eldest of five children and was dearly loved by the whole family. The greater part of his life before he went to Swansea in 1920 was spent in London where he began his academic career in 1903 as an engineering student at the Royal College of Science. As a volunteer (probably under age) he had already served in the South African war, on one occasion during which members of his troop, although unable to swim, had to get their horses over the flooded Tugela river at midnight. His college course, 1903- 1907, was one of sustained distinction, and he developed an interest in pure mathematics which attracted the attention of his teachers, particularly of Professor L. N. G. Filon, who wished to appoint him forthwith to his staff as an assistant in mathematics. But Richardson, it would appear, was not yet a member of the University of London; and to become a lecturer required his passing the next matriculation examination: this done he was duly appointed. Three years later he obtained First Class Honours in the external examination. From 1912 to 1914 he was assistant professor in mathematics at the Imperial College, which had been formed by the amalgamation of the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines, and the City and Guilds Engineering College. In August 1914 he left for war service and returned in April 1919. In August 1920 he became Professor of Aeronautical Science at the Cadet College, Cranwell; and shortly afterwards, in October 1920, he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics in the University College of Swansea, the newly created constituent college of the University of Wales. This post he held for twenty years until he was compelled to resign in 1940 on account of increasing ill health, when he retired to Cape Town, but continued to prosecute research until shortly before his death in 1954. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946.

Arthur Thomas Masterman, 1869 - 1941

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 813-817
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Fish Eggs ◽  
The North ◽  
South African War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The University

A. T. Masterman died on 10 February. Born in 1869, he was the third son of Thomas W. Masterman of Rotherfield Hall, Sussex; one brother became Bishop of Plymouth, another Secretary of State for India and a third was killed in the South African War. He was elected a Fellow in 1915. He was educated at University School, Hastings, then proceeding to Weymouth College from which he obtained a scholarship at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Here he fell under the influence of the late Sir Arthur Shipley, who aroused his interest in zoology, his second subject being physiology. He was prominent in the college for his football and golf, and in the university as president of the swimming club and captain of the first university waterpolo team. In 1893 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Natural History at St Andrews. This influenced the whole of his subsequent career, since his professor was the leading authority on British fisheries, having devoted thirty years to the elucidation of the life histories of food fishes. In the next years Masterman was responsible for reports on the S.S. Garland collections off the east coast of Scotland, the growth of flat-fishes particularly when exposed to pathogenic conditions, the arrival in the North Sea of tunny, the correlation of its skeleton to its powerful swimming being of particular interest, and the life history of the sand eel. It was a period of speculation—fish eggs being still supposed to be laid all the year round with a slower winter development. In the case of the sand eel two flushes of larvae were found in March-April and July-August.

scholarly journals Review Essay: Enlightenment Lost?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Walter C. Clemens Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Sturm Und Drang ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Policy Institute ◽  
The University

Lost Enlightenment and Polymaths of Islam, each analyzing a different but linked period of Central Asian civilization, is each a masterwork of scholarship. Each author, now at a different stage in his academic career, has put to good use a bevy of languages to unveil the achievements of societies and ways of life smothered by the Sturm und Drang of life including great power aggressions. S. Frederick Starr has led Soviet as well as Central Asian research institutes based in Washington, D.C. He was the first director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and later the founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, now affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Institute. James Pickett is Assistant Professor of Eurasian History at the University of Pittsburgh. Each author has done research in Russia and Central Asia.

scholarly journals BARNARD Christian NetLink (to the 95th of birthday and 50th anniversary of the first in the world successful heart transplant)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Alexander Alekseevich Andreev ◽  
Anton Petrovich Ostroushko
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Heart Transplant ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cardiothoracic Surgeon ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

Barnard (Barnard) Christian Nettling South African surgeon, performed the first successful heart transplant man, he was born in 1922 in Beaufort West in South Africa. In 1940 he graduated from school in 1946, the medical faculty of the University of Cape town. In 1953 he received the degree of doctor of medicine at the medical school of the University of Cape town. In 1956, he studied cardiac surgery in the US, where in 1958 he received the degree of doctor of medicine. After returning to South Africa K. Barnard was appointed cardiothoracic surgeon, and soon the head of surgical research, Department of cardiothoracic surgery at the clinic of the University of Cape town. In the October 1959 Christian Bernard is the first in Africa performed a successful kidney transplant. In 1962 he held the post of assistant Professor in the Department of surgery of the University of Cape town. December 3, 1967 K. Barnard and his colleagues have performed the first successful orthotopic transplantation of the human heart. In 1972 he was appointed Professor of surgical Sciences at the University of Cape town. In 1974 K. Barnard produced the world's first heterotopic heart transplant man. In 1981 he developed the patronage system of the heart by conducting hypothermic perfusion. In 1983, K. Barnard, resigned. He is the author of the autobiographical book "One life" (1970), published in co-authorship with Z. Stander anti-racist novel "Undesirable elements" (1974). Christian Barnard died on 2 September 2001, Paphos, Cyprus.

Alfred William Porter, 1863 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Oliver Lodge ◽  
The University ◽  
Serious Injuries

Alfred William Porter died on 11 January 1939 at West Kirby, Cheshire, to which place he had removed after partial recovery from serious injuries sustained about a year earlier in a street accident in London, where he had spent most of his life. He was born on 12 November 1863, and in his early years lived in Liverpool. He began training as an architect, but, his interest in physics having been stimulated by association with Oliver Lodge, he began to study this subject seriously and entered upon an academic career at the age of twenty-seven. He was a student first at Liverpool University College and later at University College, London, graduating there in 1890. In the same year he became a demonstrator in the Physics Department, and thus began an association with University College, London, which was uninterrupted until his retirement in 1928 with the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of London. During this long association he served under four Professors— Carey Foster, H. L. Callendar, F. T. Trouton and W. H. Bragg —as Assistant Professor. He was elected a Fellow of University College in 1897, and was appointed University Reader in Thermodynamics in 1912. It was not until 1923 that he himself became Professor in the Department to which he had devoted so much of his energy.

scholarly journals Cluster Preface: Modern Nickel-Catalyzed Reactions

Synlett ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 1492-1493
Author(s):  
Ruben Martin ◽  
Gary A. Molander
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Added Value ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Coupling Reactions ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Postdoctoral Training ◽  
The University

Ruben Martin is a professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Barcelona under the guidance of Prof. Antoni Riera. In 2004, he moved to the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Alois Fürstner. In 2005, he undertook further postdoctoral studies at MIT with Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald as a MEC-Fulbright fellow. In 2008, he began his independent career as an assistant professor at the ICIQ (Tarragona). In 2013, he was promoted to associate professor and shortly after to ICREA Research Professor. Ruben Martin has focused his career on designing synthetically useful Ni-catalyzed methodologies for streamlining the preparation of added-value chemicals from simple precursors without losing sight of mechanistic considerations, when appropriate. Gary A. Molander is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. He completed his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Iowa State University under the tutelage of Prof. Richard C. Larock. He earned his Ph.D. at Purdue University under the direction of Prof. Herbert Brown and undertook postdoctoral training with Prof. Barry Trost at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He began his academic career at the University of Colorado, Boulder, moving to the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. His research interests have focused on the utilization of organolanthanides, Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with trifluoro­borate salts, and the merger of photoredox catalysis and Ni catalysis for tackling a priori uphill transformations under visible-light irradiation for accessing valuable scaffolds in both academic and pharmaceutical laboratories.

ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY IN ZIMBABWEAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mugwisi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
The University

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the Internet have to a large extent influenced the way information is made available, published and accessed. More information is being produced too frequently and information users now require certain skills to sift through this multitude in order to identify what is appropriate for their purposes. Computer and information skills have become a necessity for all academic programmes. As libraries subscribe to databases and other peer-reviewed content (print and electronic), it is important that users are also made aware of such sources and their importance. The purpose of this study was to examine the teaching of information literacy (IL) in universities in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the role played by librarians in creating information literate graduates. This was done by examining whether such IL programmes were prioritised, their content and how frequently they were reviewed. An electronic questionnaire was distributed to 12 university libraries in Zimbabwe and 21 in South Africa. A total of 25 questionnaires were returned. The findings revealed that IL was being taught in universities library and non-library staff, was compulsory and contributed to the term mark in some institutions. The study also revealed that 44 per cent of the total respondents indicated that the libraries were collaborating with departments and faculty in implementing IL programmes in universities. The study recommends that IL should be an integral part of the university programmes in order to promote the use of databases and to guide students on ethical issues of information use.

Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

Dr Jared McDonald, of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, reviews As by fire: the end of the South African university, written by former UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen.    How to cite this book review: MCDONALD, Jared. Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 117-119, Sep. 2017. Available at: <http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=18>. Date accessed: 12 Sep. 2017.   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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