scholarly journals Address given by Sir Charles Darwin at the Max Planck memorial service held on 23 april 1948 in the aula of the University of Göttingen

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Scientific Achievement ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Deep Appreciation ◽  
The Many ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University

The University of Göttingen was founded by George Augustus, whom we know in England as King George II. He was Patron of the Royal Society, and it is fitting that in this hall the Royal Society should pay a tribute of reverence to the memory of the illustrious Max Planck. In his lifetime the Society recorded its deep appreciation of his services to science by electing him to the small and carefully guarded body of its Foreign Members and by bestowing on him in 1929 the highest honour which it has to offer, the Copley Medal. It is not necessary to-day to emphasize the importance of his profound and original researches. The quantum theory, of which he is the sole and undisputed originator, lies at the basis of all modern physical theory and the Society is happy to think that it numbers among its Fellows many who have helped to show how wide and how significant is its scope. Planck’s constant has taken its place by the side of Newton’s constant of gravitation as a symbol of a period of scientific revelation. But if Planck the originator in scientific achievement commands the homage of our heads, no less does Planck the man deserve the approbation of our hearts. His character was modest, kindly and blameless, and amid the trials of distressful times and through many personal sorrows he preserved his integrity and his quiet courage. The Society is happy to remember that Planck was its guest at the Newton Tercentenary Celebrations held in the summer of 1946, and that the many signs of respect and friendship that he then received clearly gave him pleasure in his declining days.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

G.R.G. Mure: 1893–1979

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Burke Trend
Keyword(s):  
Civil Service ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Personal Recollection ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Lincoln College

The following two articles commemorate the distinguished British Hegelian philosopher and scholar, who died last year. The first is the text of the Address given on 6 October 1979 at the Memorial Service for G.R.G. Mure in the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford (the College where he was first Tutor in Philosophy and Fellow, and then Warden). The author, Lord Trend, was a pupil of Mure at Merton and ended a distinguished career in the civil service as the Secretary to the British Cabinet. He is now Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. The second article was specially written for the Bulletin by W.H. Walsh, who succeeded Mure as Tutor in Philosophy at Merton. W.H. Walsh has kindly agreed to prepare a bibliography of Mure's writings for the Autumn/Winter issue of the Bulletin. I had left Oxford a good many years before Geoffrey Mure became the Warden of Merton; and he had retired before I returned to the University. During his Wardenship I was able to see much less of him, and of the College, than I would have wished; and I am far less qualified than many others to speak of the debt which Merton owes him for the sixteen years in which he presided over its fortunes. I know that the debt was very great, no less great than the pride which he himself felt in discharging the Warden's office; but I must leave it to others, at other times and in other ways, to bear witness in detail to the nature, and the scope, of the many services which he, and his wife Molly, rendered this House. I want now simply to try to pay a tribute, of love, admiration and gratitude, to the man himself, a man to whom I, in common with so many others, owe so much, a man from whom I learned, genuinely learned, as from nobody else in my life. Inevitably, this must be largely a matter of personal recollection. But everybody will have brought his own memories of Geoffrey to this memorial service; and, if my words help to quicken those memories into fresh life, perhaps the picture which we shall construct between us will be the memorial which he himself would have most wished to have.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Report of the Council for 1955–56

1956 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-669 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Deep Appreciation ◽  
The Many

The Council have great pleasure in reporting that Prof. A. V. Hill, C.H., O.B.E., F.R.S., was elected President of the Association in June in place of Prof. Sir James Gray, Kt., C.B.E., M.C., F.R.S., who had served for the preceding ten years.The Council wish to record their deep appreciation of the many services rendered to the Association by Sir James Gray during his long term of office as President, and are glad to report that he will continue to serve on the Council as Governor representing the Royal Society. Sir James Gray has been elected a Vice-President of the Association.

scholarly journals Meet the IUPAB Councilor—Hans-Joachim Galla

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Galla
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
Chemistry Department ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Biophysical Society ◽  
Habilitation Thesis ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University ◽  
Biophysical Chemistry

AbstractAs one of the twelve Councilors, it is my pleasure to provide a short biographical sketch for the readers of Biophys. Rev. and for the members of the Biophysical Societies. I have been a member of the council in the former election period. Moreover, I served since decades in the German Biophysical Society (DGfB) as board member, secretary, vice president, and president. I hold a diploma degree in chemistry as well as PhD from the University of Göttingen. The experimental work for both qualifications has been performed at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen under the guidance of Erich Sackmann and the late Herman Träuble. When E. Sackmann moved to the University of Ulm, I joined his group as a research assistant performing my independent research on structure and dynamics of biological and artificial membranes and qualified for the “habilitation” thesis in Biophysical Chemistry. I have spent a research year at Stanford University supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and after coming back to Germany, I was appointed as a Heisenberg Fellow by the DFG and became Professor in Biophysical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department of the University of Darmstadt. Since 1990, I spent my career at the Institute for Biochemistry of the University of Muenster as full Professor and Director of the institute. I have trained numerous undergraduate, 150 graduate, and postdoctoral students from chemistry, physics, and also pharmacy as well as biology resulting in more than 350 published papers including reviews and book articles in excellent collaboration with colleagues from different academic disciplines in our university and also internationally, e.g., as a guest professor at the Chemistry Department of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing.

Memorial meeting for Lord Blackett, O. M., C. H., F. R. S. at the Royal Society on 31 October 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-162 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Indian Academy ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Informal Meeting ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

A MEMORIAL meeting was held at the Royal Society on 31 October 1974 for Lord Blackett, O.M., C.H., F.R.S. Tributes to commemorate Lord Blackett and his achievements were paid by: Sir Alan Hodgkin, O.M., President of the Royal Society Sir Harrie Massey, Physical Secretary of the Royal Society Sir David Martin, Executive Secretary of the Royal Society Professor G. P. S. Occhialini, Foreign Member of the Royal Society Sir Bernard Lovell, F.R.S. Professor C. H. Waddington, F.R.S. Dr C. C. Butler, F.R.S. Professor S. K. Runcorn, F.R.S. Professor M. G. K. Menon, F.R.S., President of the Indian Academy of Sciences Sir Alan Hodgkin, O.M.: After Lord Blackett’s death we learnt from Lady Blackett that he had wished to be remembered at an informal meeting of the Royal Society, rather than at a memorial service of a more conventional kind. For this meeting we have asked several of Patrick Blackett’s friends and colleagues to speak quite briefly and informally about some of the many aspects of his very full and varied life. First of all I have two messages to convey to you. The Prime Minister has expressed his regrets at being unable to be present and he is represented by Lord Wynne Jones. A cable has been received from the Prime Minister of India through the Indian High Commission which reads as follows:

scholarly journals On intravascular coagulation in albinoes and pigmented animals, and on the behaviour of the nucleo-proteids of testes in solution in the production of intravascular coagulation

1907 ◽  
Vol 79 (530) ◽  
pp. 103-129
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Intravascular Coagulation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

The experiments described in this paper have been performed in the physiological laboratories of the University of London, and my best thanks are due to Dr. Augustus Waller, the Director, and to Mr. E. Legge Symes, the Demonstrator in Physiology, for the many facilities that were kindly placed at my service. Especially would I like to add my testimony to the value of the Dubois chloroform apparatus as a means of easily and safely administering chloroform to animals. The cost of these experiments has been defrayed from a grant of the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society.

A Catalogue of Books printed between 1498 and 1700 now in the Library of the British School at Athens

1978 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 189-211
Author(s):  
Dennis E. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
The West ◽  
British School ◽  
The Government ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

The nucleus of the collection of books printed before 1701 which are now in the Library of the British School at Athens was left by the distinguished historian of Greece, George Finlay ( 1799–1875), whose name the library still bears. His father, John Finlay (1757–1802), a Major in the Royal Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society, who had seen service in the West Indies, was already a book-collector, and many of the books contain his printed label. He was in charge of the Government Powder Mills at Faversham in Kent when his second son, George, was born there on 21 December 1799. Three years later John Finlay died, and in 1806 or 1807 Mrs. Finlay married Alexander MacGregor, a Liverpool merchant. George was put into a boarding school for some years at Everton, Liverpool; and it was here, in 1815, when he was not yet sixteen, that we have the first evidence of his love of books, for he bought in that year at least one seventeenth-century edition. He was later moved to Glasgow to live with an uncle, and afterwards spent some time at the University of Göttingen.

scholarly journals Cell scientist to watch – Binyam Mogessie

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Segregation ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
Mammalian Eggs

ABSTRACT Binyam Mogessie was born and raised in Ethiopia. He moved to Germany in 2004, where he studied biochemistry and cell biology at Jacobs University Bremen. He then moved to the UK for his PhD with Anne Straube, first at the Marie Curie Research Institute in Surrey and later at the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology in Warwick, where he investigated the cellular mechanisms that organise the microtubule cytoskeleton during skeletal muscle differentiation. After receiving his PhD in cell biology from the University of London, he joined the laboratory of Melina Schuh in 2012 as a postdoc at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge (and later at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany), where he discovered a function of the actin cytoskeleton in accurate chromosome segregation and the prevention of aneuploidy in mammalian eggs. Binyam established his independent research laboratory at the University of Bristol, School of Biochemistry in 2018, where he is a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale fellow and HFSP Young Investigator. He also received a Seed Award from the Wellcome Trust and funding from the Rosetrees Trust and Royal Society. His lab is investigating actin- and microtubule-based cytoskeletal ensembles that promote healthy egg development and embryogenesis in mammals.

scholarly journals Sir Charles Sherrington´s ninetieth birthday

1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-156
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scientific Achievement ◽  
Great Scientist ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Mind

The following message was sent on behalf of the Society to Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M., F.R.S., on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday: ‘ The Royal Society sends you its greetings and good wishes for your birthday. We think of our former President with especial pride and affection—we are proud of your scientific achievement, of the fresh light you have thrown on the hidden dealings of the nervous system, of the many pupils you have inspired and of the originality and distinction which has informed your scientific writing. We are proud of the philosopher who has first learnt the wisdom of the body and of the poet who can touch the springs of the mind. But on this birthday we think not so much of the great scientist as of the welL loved friend of many years who has won universal esteem by his kindness and generosity and by the courage and purpose of his life. You have set us an example for which we thank you, and we wish you all the happiness which you have so well deserved.’

Address at the memorial service for Sir Frederick Bawden, Treas.R.S. at the Church of St James, Piccadilly on 16 March 1972

1973 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Friday Evening ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church ◽  
Full Pressure

FRED BAWDEN died after a short illness on 8 February. He had been unwell during the previous week, but carried on at full pressure because he was anxious to finish the Rothamsted annual report, which he managed to do on the Friday evening before his death. Those of us who worked with Fred at Rothamsted or at the Royal Society realized at once that we had lost a personal friend as well as the most distinguished agricultural scientist in the Commonwealth. From the many letters that have come in since his death it is evident that our feeling of loss is shared by scientists throughout the world. The common theme that runs through these messages are Bawden’s warmth and humour, his practical and helpful qualities and his contribution to both biology and agriculture.

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