scholarly journals Ivan Djaja (Jean Giaja) and the Belgrade School of Physiology

2011 ◽  
pp. S1-S13 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. ANDJUS ◽  
S. S. STOJILKOVIC ◽  
G. CVIJIC
Keyword(s):  
Associate Member ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
French Academy ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Medical Academy ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Alexander Fleming

The founder of physiology studies in the Balkans and the pioneer of research on hypothermia, Ivan Djaja (Jean Giaja) was born 1884 in L’Havre. Giaja gained his PhD at the Sorbonne in 1909. In 1910 he established the first Chair of Physiology in the Balkans and organized the first Serbian Institute for Physiology at the School of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. He led this Institute for more than 40 subsequent years. His most notable papers were in the field of thermoregulation and bioenergetics. Djaja became member of the Serbian and Croatian academies of science and doctor honoris causa of Sorbonne. In 1952 for the seminal work on the behavior of deep cooled warm blooded animals he became associate member of the National Medical Academy in Paris. In 1955 the French Academy of Sciences elected him as associate member in place of deceased Sir Alexander Fleming. Djaja died in 1957 during a congress held in his honor. He left more than 200 scientific and other papers and the golden DaVincian credo “Nulla dies sine experimento”. His legacy was continued by several generations of researchers, the most prominent among them being Stefan Gelineo, Radoslav Andjus and Vojislav Petrović.

scholarly journals In memoriam BORIS KAMENAR (1929 – 2012)

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gligor Jovanovski
Keyword(s):  
Associate Member ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

It is a very sad duty to announce that academician Boris Kamenar, Professsor Emeritus at the University of Zagreb, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and associate member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, passed away on July 12, 2012.

Professor Mars Konstantinovich Mikhailov

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Medical Academy ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State Medical Academy ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

On June 17, 1998, one of the famous radiographers of Russian medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, full member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Science and Arts, Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade, Rector and Head Department of Radiation Diagnostics of the Kazan State Medical Academy to Mars Konstantinovich Mikhailov.

Displaying Information Maps and Graphs

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Headrick
Keyword(s):  
Visual Representation ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Preliminary Step ◽  
French Academy ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
French Citizen

Not all those who contributed to the culture of information were members of the bourgeoisie. In the area of visual representation, two names—Cassini and Harrison—illustrate how widely the culture of information had spread to all classes of society. For over a century, four generations of Cassinis dominated French astronomy and cartography. The founder of this illustrious lineage, Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 –1712), was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna when he was recruited to head the Paris Observatory in 1669. He became a French citizen, changed his name to Jean-Dominique Cassini, and entered into the privileged elite of the Old Regime. At the observatory, Jean Cassini discovered the rotation of the planets and developed a method of determining longitude by sighting the moons of Jupiter. He also launched the most elaborate cartographic project of his time, the map of France known as “la carte de Cassini.” His son Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), known as Cassini II, succeeded him at the observatory and as a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Jacques carried on his father’s work of measuring the arc of the meridian—a necessary but preliminary step in constructing an accurate map of France. In this effort, which was to take fifty years, Jacques Cassini was seconded by his son César-François Cassini de Thury (1714 –1784), known (of course) as Cassini III, who was also a member of the Academy and director of the observatory. When César-François died in 1784, his son Jacques-Dominique (1748 – 1845), count of Cassini (Cassini IV), carried on as head of the observatory, member of the academy, and director of the map project. The Cassinis’ Carte de France, completed in 1793, was a masterpiece of Old Regime cartography. Jacques­ Dominique’s son Gabriel (1784 –1832) broke with the family tradition and became a botanist. In contrast to this story of distinction and privilege, John Harrison’s life was one of struggle and hardship, rewarded by success only at the very end. Harrison (1693 –1776) was the son of a carpenter who taught himself how to build clocks.

Colin Maclaurin

1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-156
Author(s):  
Vera Sanford
Keyword(s):  
French Academy ◽  
Mathematics Professor ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Masters Degree

Colin maclaurin seems to have been a prodigy in mathematics. He entered the University of Glasgow at the age of eleven and took his masters degree at fifteen. At nineteen, he earned the post of professor of mathematics at Aberdeen by competitive examination. He spent several years in travel as tutor to an English family. In 1724 he won a prize offered by the French Academy of Sciences with an essay on the percussion of bodies. In 1740, he divided a similar prize with Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, his entry being an essay on tides. In 1725 he was made the deputy of the mathematics professor at Edinburgh and later became professor of mathematics there. The Edinburgh appointment was one in which Newton was greatly interested and Ball says that “Newton privately wrote offering to bear the cost so as to enable the university to secure the services of Maclaurin.”*

First Ricin Readings

1998 ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Oleksandr N. Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Medical Academy ◽  
65Th Anniversary ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

On April 22, 1998, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the publication of Arsen Rychinsky's "Problems of Ukrainian Religious Consciousness" in Kremenets (Ternopil region), the First Rychinsky reading was held. The organizers of the conference were: Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies, Ternopil Medical Academy named after them. I.Gorbachevsky, Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy named after G.S. Skovoroda, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kremenets Medical College.

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)

Reorganization of the Governmental Structure of Roumania

1931 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 700-703
Author(s):  
Joseph S. Roucek
Keyword(s):  
Central Administration ◽  
World War ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Law ◽  
Self Rule ◽  
The University

The law for the reorganization of central administration and the law on local administration (July 20, 1929) sponsored by the National Peasant government of Roumania have recently been put into effect. Both measures were drafted by Professors Negulescu, of the University of Bucharest, and Alexianu, of the University of Cernauţi. Their adoption comprises one of the most thorough governmental reforms in the history of the Balkans.The structure of the Roumanian government was, until very recently, almost completely copied from the French system. Roumania was a typical example of a unitary organization. The whole power of government was centralized in Bucharest. Practically all powers of local government were derived from the central authority, and were enlarged and contracted at the will of Bucharest. The whole system lent itself admirably to the domination of the National Liberal party, guided up to 1927 by Ion I. C. Brǎtianu, and after his death by his brother, Vintilǎ I. C. Brǎtianu, who died last year.Since the strength of the National Peasant party, which assumed the reins in 1928, lies largely in the provinces acquired at the close of the World War, a decentralization of government was to be expected. The bitter resentment of Maniu and his associates toward the over-centralization which favored the policies of the Bratianus forced the recent overhauling of the governmental structure, tending toward federalism—a form which takes cognizance of the differences of the past and present between the old kingdom and the new provinces and attempts to extend democratic features of self-rule to the electorate. At the same time, it attempts to secure bureaucratic expertness.

XXIII. On the water-barometer erected in the hall of the Royal Society

1832 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 539-574 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Physical Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metallic Tube ◽  
French Academy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Made In

I have for some time entertained an opinion, in common with some others who have turned their attention tot he subject, that a good series of observations with a Water-Barometer, accurately constructed, might throw some light upon several important points of physical science: amongst others, upon the tides of the atmosphere; the horary oscillations of the counterpoising column; the ascending and descending rate of its greater oscillations; and the tension of vapour at different atmospheric temperatures. I have sought in vain in various scientific works, and in the Transactions of Philosophical Societies, for the record of any such observations, or for a description of an instrument calculated to afford the required information with anything approaching to precision. In the first volume of the History of the French Academy of Sciences, a cursory reference is made, in the following words, to some experiments of M. Mariotte upon the subject, of which no particulars appear to have been preserved. “Le même M. Mariotte fit aussi à l’observatoire des experiences sur le baromètre ordinaire à mercure comparé au baromètre à eau. Dans l’un le mercure s’eléva à 28 polices, et dans Fautre l’eau fut a 31 pieds Cequi donne le rapport du mercure à l’eau de 13½ à 1.” Histoire de I'Acadérmie, tom. i. p. 234. It also appears that Otto Guricke constructed a philosophical toy for the amusement of himself and friends, upon the principle of the water-barometer; but the column of water probably in this, as in all the other instances which I have met with, was raised by the imperfect rarefaction of the air in the tube above it, or by filling with water a metallic tube, of sufficient length, cemented to a glass one at its upper extremity, and fitted with a stop-cock at each end; so that when full the upper one might be closed and the lower opened, when the water would fall till it afforded an equipoise to the pressure of the atmo­sphere. The imperfections of such an instrument, it is quite clear, would render it totally unfit for the delicate investigations required in the present state of science; as, to render the observations of any value, it is absolutely necessary that the water should be thoroughly purged of air, by boiling, and its insinuation or reabsorption effectually guarded against. I was convinced that the only chance of securing these two necessary ends, was to form the whole length of tube of one piece of glass, and to boil the water in it, as is done with mercury in the common barometer. The practical difficulties which opposed themselves to such a construction long appeared to me insurmount­able; but I at length contrived a plan for the purpose, which, having been honoured with the approval of the late Meteorological Committee of this Society, was ordered to be carried into execution by the President and Council.

scholarly journals Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters across Eurasia, a Preface

Itinerario ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-473
Author(s):  
Paolo Sartori
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The Third ◽  
Austrian Academy ◽  
Iranian Studies ◽  
Technical Discipline ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis thematic issue of Itinerario brings together a selection of papers presented at the international conference Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters across Eurasia, which was held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in early October 2018. The conference was the third instalment in a series of collaborations between the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh examining Islamicate cultures of documentation from different angles. Surviving precolonial and colonial chancery archives across Eurasia provide an unparalleled glimpse into the inner workings of connectivity across writing cultures and, especially, documentary practices. This particular meeting has attempted to situate what has traditionally been a highly technical discipline in a broader historical dialogue on the relationship between state power, the archive, and cultural encounters.

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