scholarly journals Ancora su Giulio Pignatti ritrattista. Il mondo dei Grand Tourists e degli eruditi a Firenze

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-239
Author(s):  
Lisa Leonelli
Keyword(s):  
Gold Medal ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Conversation Piece ◽  
The University

Giulio Pignatti or Pignatta (1679-1751), a painter from Modena who specialized in portraiture, arrived in Florence in 1705 and remained there until his death. During the fourty-six years spent in the Tuscan capital, he made contact with the last members of the Medici dynasty and with Grand Tourists as attested by the Portrait of Sir Andrew Fountaine with four friends in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, dated 1715. Pignatti’s oeuvre can now be expanded by another conversation piece commissioned in 1721 by Giuseppe Aversani’s pupils in the University of Pisa on the occasion of the gift of a gold medal, and by the portraits of Ludovico Tempi and Cosimo Del Sera which testifies that Pignatti worked for numerous Florentine noble families. By focusing on these paintings, the paper intends to provide a better understanding of the artist's career and patrons.

Production of New and Revised A.A.V.S.O. Charts

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Clinton B. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Variable Star ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Original Data ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The University

A “new charts program” for the Americal Association of Variable Star Observers was instigated in 1966 via the gift to the Association of the complete variable star observing records, charts, photographs, etc. of the late Prof. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Adequate material covering about 60 variables, not previously charted by the AAVSO, was included in this original data, and was suitably charted in reproducible standard format.Since 1966, much additional information has been assembled from other sources, three Catalogs have been issued which list the new or revised charts produced, and which specify how copies of same may be obtained. The latest such Catalog is dated June 1978, and lists 670 different charts covering a total of 611 variables none of which was charted in reproducible standard form previous to 1966.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1873 ◽  
Vol 21 (139-147) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Physical Investigation ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

William John Macquorn Rankine was bom at Edinburgh on the 5th July, 1820. He was the son of David Rankine (a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, and a younger son of Macquorn Rankine, of Drumdow, of a well-known family in the county of Ayr), and of Barbara Grahame, one of the daughters of Archibald Grahame, of Dalmarnock, a banker in Glasgow. He was educated partly at Ayr Academy, partly at the High School of Glasgow, from which he went to the University of Edinburgh; but he derived much of his instruction from his father, and, like most men who have made any real mark in science, he owed the greater part of his knowledge to his own energy and industry. In 1836 he received a gold medal for an essay on the Undulatory Theory of Light, and in 1838 he gained an extra prize for his essay on Methods of Physical Investigation. Shortly after this date he entered upon the profession of Civil Engineering, as a pupil of Sir John McNeill, under whose direction he was employed from 1839 to 1841 in various schemes for waterworks and harbour-works in the north of Ireland, and on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway.

The Crocodile and the Elephant

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
A. R. Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Peter Kapitza ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

In 1907 Ernest Rutherford (later named ‘The Crocodile’ by Peter Kapitza), 36 years old and already a world–famous physicist, moved from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, to the University of Manchester, England. In the same year Niels Bohr (later known by some as ‘The Elephant’––he was one of the very few non–royal recipients of the Order of the Elephant), a 22–year–old student at the University of Copenhagen, received the gold medal of the Royal Danish Academy for his first research project, an experimental and theoretical study of water jets. During the next 30 years, until Rutherford's death in 1937, these two great scientists dominated quantum physics. Rutherford was the father of nuclear physics; together they founded atomic physics; and, with their students and colleagues, they were responsible for the great majority of the decisive advances made in the inter–war years. This lecture tells the story of the development in quantum physics, and makes some comparisons between Bohr and Rutherford–as men and scientists–drawing especially on their extensive correspondence between 1912 and 1937, the material that Bohr gathered in connection with the publication in 1961 of his Rutherford Memorial Lecture, the interviews that he gave just before his death in 1962, and other published and unpublished material from the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.

scholarly journals The fate of 131I-labelled diphtheria toxin and toxoid in the skin of immune and allergic guinea-pigs

1959 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
D. A. Long
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Diphtheria Toxin ◽  
Blood Bank ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Diphtheria Antitoxin ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Toxin Protein ◽  
The University

Highly purified crystalline diphtheria toxin-protein, and toxoid prepared from it, were labelled with 131I, without change of potency, and injected intradermally into immune and allergic guinea-pigs. It is probable that actively immunized guinea-pigs localize these antigens and that localization is due to hypersensitivity of a type that cannot be transferred with serum; it is possibly of the delayed (tuberculin-type) of allergy.It is a pleasure to acknowledge the gift of highly purified (crystalline) diphtheria toxin, and toxoid prepared from it, from Dr C. G. Pope of the Wellcome Research Laboratories, England. Dr S. P. Masouredis of the Central Blood Bank of Pittsburgh kindly labelled these antigens, using the technique he devised. Dr W. J. Kuhns generously provided the human precipitating and non-precipitating diphtheria antitoxin*.The collimator head was made by Mr J. Nechaj of the University of Pittsburgh.All these collaborators gave me advice on matters of which I was ignorant; for this I am grateful.

Kurokawa, Kishō [黒川紀章] (1934–2007)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neilton Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Richard Neutra ◽  
The University

Kishō Kurokawa [黒川紀章] was born in 1934 in Kanie, Aichi prefecture, Japan, and studied architecture at Kyoto University, obtaining his bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1957. Further studies at the University of Tokyo under Kenzō Tange, graduating with a master’s degree from its Graduate School of Architecture in 1959, were followed by doctoral studies at the same institution until 1964. Kurokawa was a key proponent of Metabolism, the Japanese architectural movement that utilized biology as a metaphoric vehicle to reconfigure both the cityscape and architectural practice itself, and which came to attention at the World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo. Founding his own practice, namely Kishō Kurokawa Architect & Associates (KKAA) in Tokyo in 1962, Kurokawa’s projects during the 1960s and 1970s were mainly located in Japan. They included the Resort Center Yamagata Hawaii Dreamland (1967) and the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo (1972), the latter being a key example of Metabolism. The late 1970s saw Kurokawa pursuing engagements overseas, and from the 1980s onwards he consolidated his activity abroad, including projects such as the Japanese-German Center of Berlin (1988), Melbourne Central (1991), the new exhibition wing at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (1998), and Astana International Airport, Kazakhstan (2005). Kurokawa received numerous awards, including the Académie d’Architecture Gold Medal, France (1986), Richard Neutra Award, USA (1988), AIA Pacific Rim Award, USA (1997), Dedalo-Minosse International Prize, Malaysia (2003–2004), Walpole Medal of Excellence, UK (2005), and an International Architecture Award, USA (2006). Honorary doctorates were bestowed on Kurokawa by Sofia University, Bulgaria (1988), Newport Asia Pacific University (now Anaheim University), USA (1990), Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation, USA (1990), and the Universiti Putri Malaysia (2002). Kurokawa died of heart failure in 2007.

scholarly journals Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, 1874 - 1944

1945 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Plant Physiologist ◽  
The University

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller was born at Birmingham on 19 August 1874. As a young boy he was a weekly boarder at a preparatory’school at Moseley near his home, but at this age he suffered greatly from asthma whenever he was taken to the seaside or the country. Later he went to Queen’s College, Taunton, a methodist school, where he acquired an interest in natural history and a love of the countryside. At the age of eighteen he entered Mason College, Birmingham (now the University of Birmingham), studying Botany under Professor Hillhouse, and obtained the B.Sc. degree of London University in 1896 and the award of the Heslop Gold Medal from Mason College. In 1897 he became an Associate of the College. In October 1897 he went to Leipzig to study under the stimulating influence of Wilhelm Pfeffer, a great plant physiologist, and while there he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition scholarship.

James Cossar Ewart, 1851 - 1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Bacillus Anthracis ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Original Research ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Umbilical Arteries ◽  
The University ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Different Parts

James Gossar Ewart, the younger son of John Ewart, of Penicuik, Midlothian, was born in November, 1851. He passed his boyhood at his native place and received his early education there. At the age of 19 he matriculated in the University of Edinburgh as a medical student, and graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery in 1874. He was then appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy under Turner, but shortly afterwards he migrated to London, becoming Curator of the Zoological Museum at University College. In order to learn his work the more thoroughly he visited various continental museums and worked for a time at Strassburg in 1876. In London he occupied himself by making preparations for the Museum at the College, showing a great proficiency, and in addition he assisted Lankester, who held the Professorship of Zoology in organizing and conducting the practical classes which were then instituted. He also began to do original research, his earlier papers being upon the structure of different parts of the eye, upon the anatomy of the lamprey (in which he investigated the vascular peribranchial spaces, the valves of the umbilical arteries and certain of the sexual organs) and upon the placentation and fecundity of the Shanghai River deer. Other work which he did in London was upon certain bacterial organisms and he was awarded a gold medal for a thesis, on Bacillus anthracis, presented for the degree of M.D. at Edinburgh.

scholarly journals Joseph Burtt Hutchinson, 21 March 1902 - 16 January 1988

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 277-297 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Unusual Combination ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The University

Joseph Burtt Hutchinson, known as ‘Jack’ to his family and friends in the U.K., but widely known as ‘Hutch’ overseas, showed, throughout his life, a rare combination of Quaker dedication to Christian principles, agricultural common sense and scientific excellence. It was this unusual combination of characteristics that enabled him to contribute to human well-being in ways that extended far beyond those demanded by his professional career. He served for more than 30 years in tropical developing countries, not only contributing to our knowledge of the genetics and taxonomy of the world’s cottons but, more generally, encouraging and stimulating science and education in the cause of development. The same underlying attributes continued to motivate his life and work when he returned to Cambridge as Professor of Agriculture and, later, in retirement. He received an Sc.D. from Cambridge in 1948, a D.Sc. honoris causa from Nottingham in 1966 and was similarly honoured by the University of East Anglia in 1971. He was awarded the Royal Society Gold Medal in 1967, made C.M.G. in 1944 and knighted in 1956.

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