Displaying 1 - 10 of 179. Show 5 | 10 | 20 | 40 | 60 results per page.There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.--John Tillotson.
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Homer Scott Swingle, Ph.D. Homer Scott Swingle is known as the father of pond management and made significant contributions to aquaculture by establishing methods for creating self-sustaining fish populations, which provided inexpensive protein sources during challenging times. He also played a key role in expanding the Auburn University Fisheries Department into a leading institution for fishery research and education. |
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George William Bennett, Ph.D. |
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Monisha Banerjee, Ph.D. Dr. Banerjee has eight years of experience restoring and reclaiming disturbed desert lands. Her work focuses on mine waste reclamation and riparian restoration. She has experience in a broad range of vegetation, physical and hydraulic soil characterization, and microbial analyses and survey techniques. She has written literature reviews covering a wide range of topics including soil clogging of infiltration basins for wastewater recharge, saline groundwater mitigation and reclamation in riparian environments, and bacterial diversity of... |
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Robert Pemell Robert Pemell was an early English medical author known for writing in his native language, contributing significantly to pediatric medicine. His notable works include "De morbis puerorum" (1653), a treatise on children's diseases, and "Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus" (1652), discussing medicinal substances. |
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Edward Irving, Ph.D. Born in the UK in 1927, Irving went on to complete his undergraduate training in geology at Cambridge. In June of 1951, he was recruited to assist British geophysicist, Keith Runcorn, whose pioneering studies of paleomagnetism provided early evidence in support of the theory of continental drift. They collected samples from the Torridonian Sandstone of Northwest Scotland for a paleomagnetic study. This work was to become the start of Irving’s PhD. Irving was also instrumental... |
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Albert Roy Davis, Ph.D. Albert Roy Davis, scientist, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As professor of physics, he taught physics, aerodynamics and electronics, establishing the Albert Roy Davis Research Laboratory at Green Cove Springs, Florida, in 1938. He has authored over 300 general science courses adopted for grade schools, high schools and colleges in the United States and many nations of the world. Recipient of a number of honorary doctoral degrees for his scientific investigations, he is considered... |
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Walter C. Rawls Walter C. Rawls, Jr., scientist, lawyer, was born in Richmond, Virginia. His sociological and scientific investigations have taken him to many countries of the world as a consultant to governments and world organizations. He is acknowledged in national and international directories and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. For the past six years he has actively worked with the Albert Roy Davis... |
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John Havelock Fidler, Ph.D. J. Havelock Fidler read Zoology and Botany at Cambridge before studying Agricultural Entomology for hist doctorate at Reading University. He has spent over thirty years in agricultural research and became interested in dowsing in 970. Since then he has devised a number of quantitative methods in relation to dowsing and has published several articles on the subject in specialist journals. |
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Georgius Agricola GEORGIUS AGRICOLA was born at Glauchau, in Saxony, on March 24th, 1494, and therefore entered the world when it was still upon the threshold of the Renaissance; Gutenberg’s first book had been printed but forty years before; the Humanists had but begun that stimulating criticism which awoke the Reformation; Erasmus, of Rotterdam, who was subsequently to become Agricola’s friend and patron, was just completing his student days. The Reformation itself was yet to come, but... |
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Masaru Emoto, Ph.D. . |