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Prof. František Wald
THE prominent Czech chemist, Prof. Frantisek (Franz) Wald, formerly professor of physico-chemistry and metallurgy in the Czech Polytechnic High School of Prague, died on Oct. 19 in Morav-ska Ostrava-Vitkovice,...
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Kekule and Kolbe
I WRITE Kekule without an accent, as he was a descendant of old Bohemian nobles, the Kekule de Stradonice, whose ancestors, being Bohemian brothers, had to emigrate after the battle of the White Mountain (1620...
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Prof. J. V. Daneš
THE Charles' University of Prague has lost one of its leading professors, Prof. Jiří Václav Daneš, who died on April 13 in Los Angeles in his fortyeighth year, having been run over by a motor-car. This disaste...
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What becomes of Stellar Radiation ?
ON the occasion of Dr. Jeans's magnificent lecture (NATURE, Mar. 24, pp. 463–470) Sir Oliver Lodge (ibid., p. 462) asked: “What becomes of the radiation which the stars are continually pouring into space? … No on...
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Oxide of Fluorine or Fluoride of Oxygen?
THE issue of NATURE of Nov. 5, p. 672, contains the news of a very important discovery made by Messrs. P. Lebeau and A. Damiens and communicated to the Paris Academy of Sciences on Oct. 3 (see Comptes rendus, pp....
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The Atomic Weight of Silver
THE following few lines give a necessary elucidation to my critical note and to the answer given by Messrs. H. B. Baker and H. L. Riley (NATURE, Mar. 5, p. 348). My principal first theoretical argument is base...
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The Atomic Weight of Silver
IN NATURE of Dec. 11, 1926, reference is made to the determination of the atomic weight of silver (Trans. Chem. Soc., 1926, p. 2510) by H. Brereton Baker and H. L. Riley, who, by determining directly the ratio Ag...
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The New Element of Atomic Number 61: Illinium
IN their interesting note on the discovery of illinium (NATURE, June 5, p. 792) upon which the authors, Messrs. Harris, Yntema, and Prof. Hopkins, may be congratulated, I find the statement that “there were no...
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Prof. K. Lhoták
ON January 27 there died in Prague, at the relatively early age of forty-nine years. Dr. Kamil Lhotak, professor of pharmacology and pharmacognosy and director of the institute for the said sciences in the Cha...
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Prof. Otakar Kukula
THE Charles' (Bohemian) University of Prague lost on August 11, at the relatively early age of fifty-eight years, one of its most eminent professors, namely, Prof. O. Kukula, professor of surgery, director of ...
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Retrograde Metamorphosis
UNDER this denomination is understood the step-back from the normal state of an animal to that of a more primitive one. I was undergoing the strong sun-cure in Grado, an island in the Adriatic Sea, where the f...
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Prof. Iaroslav Hlava
WITHIN recent times the Czechoslovak nation has suffered several losses of eminent professors of its Charles' (Bohemian) University, which have been recorded in NATURE. Prof. Iaroslav Hlava died in Prague in h...
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Prof. Alois Mrázek
ON November 26, 1923, died Dr. Mrazek, professor of zoology in the Charles' (Bohemian) University of Prague. He was born in 1868 in Pribram, and originally worked under A. Fric in the patriotic study of the fa...
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Prof. Ian Deyl
PROF. IAN DEYL, who died on February 4 in Prague, was born in 1855 in Vysoke Veseli nad lidlinon, and prepared himself for the duties of an all-round practical surgeon. But at last he became an ophthalmologist...
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Prof. Filip Pota
WITHIN the past few months death has taken heavy toll among the professors of the Charles' (Bohemian) University of Prague. On January 7 died Prof. Pocta, professor of palaeontology and geology. He was born in...
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Einstein and Mach
IN the issue of NATURE for August 18, 1923, p. 253, Prof. Einstein is quoted as having said of Mach, at the reception given to him (Einstein) by the Société Française de Physique, “His (Mach's) view of science...
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Transcription of Russian Proper Names
IN order to conclude the discussion which followed my proposal to use letters of the Czech alphabet for the above purpose (NATURE, April 29, 1922, p. 552)—a proposal which was opposed by Lord Gleichen and Mr. ...
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Transcription of Russian Names
SOME 35 years ago I made in the columns of NATURE the proposal to adopt for the transcription of Russian names a few letters from the Bohemian alphabet. My letter was submitted to the authority of the editor o...
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Metchnikoff (Mecnikov) and Russian Science in 1883
I HAVE read with the greatest interest the review of the “Life of Elie Metchnikoff” published in NATURE of February 9. In NATURE of November 17, 1921, I gave an account of the present state of science in Russi...
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The “Proletarisation of Science” in Russia
DR. H. LYSTER JAMESON asks in NATURE of September 29, p. 147, for an account of the constructive elements of the “proletarisation of science” in Russia, and seems to praise the effort of the Soviet Government ...
