IX General Assembly of the International Council of Scientific Unions

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-250
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Monday Afternoon ◽  
International Council ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Opening Session

At the invitation of the Royal Society the IX General Assembly of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) was held in London from 25 to 28 September 1961. The last occasion when the Council held a General Assembly in London was in 1946, the IV Assembly of this body to which fifty-one nations now adhere and fourteen international scientific unions constitute the scientific members. The General Assembly was preceded by meetings of the Bureau and of the Executive Board which took place in the rooms of the Royal Society, but the number of delegates who came to this country for the plenary sessions of the International Council was well over 100 and it was necessary to find accommodation for them beyond the limits of Burlington House. Meetings were held in the School of Pharmacy of the University of London. After registration in the morning of Monday, 25 September, the delegates were welcomed by Sir Howard Florey, P.R.S., and the opening session on Monday afternoon was presided over by the President of the International Council of Scientific Unions, Sir Rudolph Peters, F.R.S. The newly formed International Union of Geological Sciences was admitted to ICSU as a general union and became the fourteenth scientific member of the Council. The Council admitted as national members the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Korean Academy of Sciences, the Ghana Academy of Learning, the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science and the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Conference Reports

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-386
Author(s):  
Anita Pelle ◽  
László Jankovics
Keyword(s):  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
Regional Committee ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
European University

(1) The Halle Insitute for Economic Research (Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle, IWH) in cooperation with the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder held a conference on 13-14 May 2004 in Halle (Saale), Germany on Continuity and Change of Foreign Direct Investments in Central Eastern Europe. (Reviewed by Anita Pelle); (2) The University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in cooperation with the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Economic Association organised an international symposium on the issue of Globalisation: Challenge or Threat for Emerging Economies on 29 April 2004 in Debrecen, Hungary. (Reviewed by László Jankovics)

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.

COCORP: Nevada areas, Part I and Part II

Geophysics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 2281-2281
Author(s):  
S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Dartmouth College ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Rice University ◽  
Executive Group ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) announces the availability of the data packages and digital tapes for two areas: Nevada area, Part 1, lines 4, 5, and 6 covering 270.1 line‐km; and Nevada area, Part II, lines 1, 2, 3, and 7 covering 273 line‐km. The costs are the costs of reproduction and shipping, only. The COCORP operation is part of the U.S. Geodynamics Program sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and funded by the National Science Foundation. The executive group of the consortium consists of representatives from Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Rice University, and the University of Wisconsin. Cornell University is the operating institution. The line locations for the two areas are shown in Figure 1. Also shown is Nevada line 8 which is not yet ready for distribution but which will be part of the N. Cal‐Nevada package to be issued shortly. Petty‐Ray was the contractor for the data acquisition. Processing was done on the Megaseis system at Cornell by students and staff of the Department of Geological Sciences.

scholarly journals I ANLEDNING 300-ÅRSJUBILEET: JOHAN ERNST GUNNERUS OG “AGDERS GUNNERUS” – ET BIDRAG TIL Å FORSTÅ HVORFOR BISKOP GUNNERUS FORESLO ET NORSK UNIVERSITET I KRISTIANSAND I 1771

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Ernst Hakon Jahr
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Seminal Contribution ◽  
University College ◽  
Scientific Reputation ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The City ◽  
Science And Research

The paper is written in connection with the 2018 300th anniversary of the birth of the professor and bishop, Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773), who founded modern science in Norway and who, in 1760, also founded the first learned society in the country: The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in Trondheim. In 1758 Professor Gunnerus was appoined the bishop for the whole of northern Norway, as the bishop of Trondheim. In 1771 Bishop Gunnerus was called to the capital of the then Danish-Norwegian kingdom, Copenhagen, with the mission of reforming the Copenhagen university, at that time the only university in the entire dual kingdom. In his recommendation for reforms of the university, he also included a proposal for the establishment of a university in Norway. In this proposal, he argued for the city of Kristiansand as the most suitable location for that university. If the King would follow his recommendation, he would himself move to Kristiansand and also bring with him the Royal Society from Trondheim. Many people have subsequently wondered why he chose to point to Kristiansand for the establishment of the first Norwegian university, and not Oslo (where the university was finally opened in 1813) or Trondheim (where he had founded the Royal Society 11 years earlier). It has been thought that Gunnerus suggested Kristiansand mainly because the fact that the city was close to Denmark and a university there could perhaps have also recruited students from northern Jutland. Some have even suggested that Gunnerus proposed Kristiansand because he knew it would not be acceptable to Copenhagen or to the King, and then Trondheim (his “real” wish) could then emerge as a more plausible candidate, even if it was situated rather far north. In this paper, I argue that until now everybody who has discussed Gunnerus' choice of location for a Norwegian university has missed one decisive point: before Gunnerus moved from Copenhagen (where he was professor) to Trondheim (as bishop), Kristiansand was known in Norway, Denmark and the rest of Europe as the Norwegian centre for science and research. This was due to just one man, Bishop Jens Christian Spidberg (1684–1762). I show how Spidberg established himself through international publications as the leading scientist in Norway, and how everybody with a scientific question during the first half of the 18th century looked to Kristiansand and Spidberg for the answer. This, I argue, gaveKristiansand an academic and scientific reputation that Gunnerus was very well aware of and could exploit in his recommendation of Kristiansand as the location for the first Norwegian university. However, this knowledge about this reputation of Kristiansand’s in the first half of the 18th century has since been lost completely, mostly because Gunnerus’ fundamental seminal contribution in the second half of the 18th century has completely overshadowed the academic situation in Norway before his time. Finally in 2007 a university, the University of Agder, was established in Kristiansand, on the basis of a university college with academic roots going back to 1828. An academy of science, the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters, was founded in 2002. A formal agreement of cooperation between the Royal Society and the then university college was signed 2001, and the academy joined the agreement in 2005. This agreement confirmed the long academic ties between Kristiansand and Trondheim, going all the way back to the scientific positions first held by Spidberg in Kristiansand and then by Gunnerus in Trondheim.

scholarly journals A füstölgő meddőhányóktól a globális közlekedésig. Beszélgetés Erdősi Ferenccel [Interjú]

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Alexandra Herczeg ◽  
◽  
Dávid Róbert Moró ◽  
Róbert Tésits ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Transport Geography ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Ferenc Erdősi was born on April 19, 1934 in Pécs, Hungary. He first graduated from the University of Szeged as a teacher of Geography and Geology, and then from the Faculty of Humanities at the Eötvös Loránd University as a teacher of History. He became the doctor of Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1989 and was appointed university professor in 1993. In the last two decades, he has dealt with transport geography and the study of the territorial effects of telematics. In 2004, he was awarded the Gábor Baross Prize and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. In 2010, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross. The subsequently semi-structured interview was conducted in September 2021, at his home. The purpose of this discussion was to gain a better understanding of the important moments in the professor’s life, the milieu that played a role in shaping his professional career. Our aim was also to present the virtues, challenges and tasks of Hungarian Geography through the experiences of this conversation.

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.

scholarly journals Teaching about the Holocaust using video testimonies

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Mónika Mezei
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The present paper introduces results of the research conducted by the Oral History and History Education Research Group (OHERG) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the University of Szeged. One of the assumptions of this research is that testimony-based lesson using multimedia devices and an appropriate methodology can develop students’ empathy and proper skills necessary to active citizenship. Analyzing the results of the qualitative and quantitative questionnaires we seek for the answers concerning the proper pedagogical aim in order to develop our students’ empathy, critical thinking and democratic values.

scholarly journals Ferenc Kozár – A dedicated and prolific worker on scale insects

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
D.J. Williams ◽  
M.B. Kaydan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
Scale Insects ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Over 40 Years

At the XII Meeting of the International Symposium on Scale Insect Studies, delegates and coccidologists worldwide congratulate Dr Ferenc Kozár for his work on scale insects during over 40 years of concentrated study. Ferenc is well known for his contributions to economic and taxonomic work on scale insects. He entered the Agricultural University in Budapest, Hungary, in 1962, and then the University of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and returned to Hungary where he has been employed as Research Scientist and then Head of the Department of Zoology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest until 1990. He then became Research Consultant, a position he has held since. His list of publications includes nine books and about 220 papers in scientific journals. He has described 13 new family-group names, 32 new genera, and about 175 new species. Much of this work has been done since 1990. We expect a steady flow of publications in the future.

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