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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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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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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 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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Entente Scientific Literature in Central Europe during the War
THE chief object of my letter, "A Tribute from Prague," published in NATURE of December 11, 1919, was to congratulate the Editor upon the jubilee number and to express my delight at again being able to obtain ...
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A Tribute from Prague
PERMIT me to congratulate you upon the jubilee issue of November 6, which has just reached me and has been received with great pleasure, for the last number of NATURE which reached me before this was that of J...
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New Units in Aerology
IN NATURE of March 19, p. 58, Prof. McAdie discusses the question of the new units in aerology, and says that now is the time to agree upon a logical and available system, considers the megabar atmosphere the ...
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Helium and Neon
THE experiments communicated to the Chemical Society recently by Prof. Collie and Mr. Patterson, the lectures delivered by Sir J. J. Thomson, and the discussions which have taken place in NATURE, on the possib...
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A New Method of Chemical Analysis
THE author of the present note is probably one of the few chemists living who was originally brought up in the Berzelian electrochemical theory (for which idea Berzelius was indebted to Davy), and, as shown in...
