Academy Of Sciences Leopoldina Research Articles

A translation of Christopher Jacob Trew's article, "Observations presenting examples of missing palate. 1757.

The following "Observation" appeared (in Latin) in the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina of 1757 and to our knowledge has never been published in the English literature. We came across the report in the early 1970s while preparing the report "Cleft lip and cleft palate: one genetic system" (Chabora and Horowitz, 1974). The 1757 paper was translated by a member of the Columbia University Greek and Latin Department, but reached us too late for inclusion in our references. Forgotten for many years, the paper, and its translation, recently came to light in our files. Christopher Jacob Trew's clear description of penetrance and expressivity in a kindred in which both cleft lip and palate and isolated cleft palate are segregating may be something of an historic curiosity at this point, but we expect that others will enjoy reading this early example of a careful and thoughtful pedigree study.

Observations Presenting Examples of Missing Palate

Abstract The following “Observation” appeared (In Latin) in the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina of 1757 and to our knowledge has never been published in the English literature. We came across the report in the early 1970s while preparing the report “Cleft lip and cleft palate: one genetic system” (Chabora and Horowitz, 1974). The 1757 paper was translated by a member of the Columbia University Greek and Latin Department, but reached us too late for inclusion in our references. Forgotten for many years, the paper, and its translation, recently came to light in our files. Christopher Jacob Trew's clear description of penetrance and expressivity in a kindred in which both cleft lip and palate and isolated cleft palate are segregating may be something of an historic curiosity at this point, but we expect that others will enjoy reading this early example of a careful and thoughtful pedigree study.

A Conversation with Leopold Schmetterer

Leopold Schmetterer was born on November 8, 1919, in Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1941 and his habilitation in 1949, both from the University of Vienna. Since 1948 he had a permanent lectureship for probability theory, since 1949 for statistics. In 1956 he became full professor at the university of Hamburg. In 1961 he returned to the University of Vienna as a professor of mathematics, since 1971 as a professor of mathematics and statistics. After having been elected an ordinary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1971, he was elected Secretary General of this Academy in 1975, a position he held until 1983. In 1972 he received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Clermont-Ferrand. Some further honors: 1961 Fellow of the IMS, 1967-1971 Vice president of the ISI, election into the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and into the Berlin, Saxonian and Bavarian Academies of Sciences. He was visiting professor among others at the University of California at Berkeley, Catholic University in Washington, D.C., Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Technion, Haifa, and the University of Clermont-Ferrand. The following conversation took place in Freiburg at the beginning of

Woody Plants-Evolution and Distribution Since the Tertiary.

Paleobotany has enormously expanded the documentation of fossil plant groups, floras and vegetation types, supporting its conclusions by technically much improved analyses of microfossils (pollen) and anatomical details. An increasing quantity and quality of all these informations from the geosciences is available when we follow the history of the biosphere up to the present. Simultaneously, research from the biosciences on the morphology, ecology, distribution, systematics and evolution of extant vascular plants, and on the ecogeographical differentiation of the vegetation cover of our planet, has made enormous progress. Thus, a synthetic geo- and bioscientific approach becomes more and more feasible and urgent for further advances in the many problems of common concern. A symposium organized by the 'Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA', attractive to paleo - and neobotanists, stimulated the discussion between specialists of the two disciplines. The main results of the symposium are now presented in this volume: sixteen international contributions outline the current knowledge about the historical differentiation and evolution of woody plant groups and forests, covering the whole biosphere. This survey, from the beginning of the Tertiary up to the present, is a first synthesis of relevant data from the geo- and biosciences.

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

Physikalische BlätterVolume 36, Issue 9 p. 289-290 Aus Der WissenschaftOpen Access Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Albrecht Unsöld, Albrecht Unsöld KielSearch for more papers by this author Albrecht Unsöld, Albrecht Unsöld KielSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1980 https://doi.org/10.1002/phbl.19800360911AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue9September 1980Pages 289-290 RelatedInformation

Cecil Frank Powell, 1903-1969

Cecil Frank Powell died suddenly on 9 August 1969, on holiday with his wife in Italy, immediately after his retirement as Head of the Department of Physics at Bristol University. He had been elected to the Royal Society in 1949, receiving the Hughes Medal in the same year. He gave the Bakerian lecture in 1957, a Tercentenary lecture in 1960, and received the Royal Medal in 1961. He had received the Charles Vernon Boys Prize of the Physical Society of London in 1947. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950; and in 1967 the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. gave him its highest award, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, he being the first foreigner ever to receive it. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in 1958, and of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1966. He was an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Leopoldina Academy, Halle; an Honorary Doctor of Science of the Universities of Dublin, Bordeaux, Warsaw, Berlin, Padua and Moscow; and an Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society. He had been Chairman of the Science Policy Committee for CERN 1961-1963; Chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board of the Science Research Council 1965-1968. He was also Chairman of the Cosmic Rays Commission of IUPAP. He was President of the Association of Scientific Workers from 1952 to 1954, President of the World Federation of Scientific Workers from 1956 till his death, and was a founder member of the Pugwash Movement from its inceptions between 1954 and 1957, presiding at the plenary meetings of the First Pugwash Conference and becoming Chairman of its executive, the Pugwash Continuing Committee, in 1967.

Leopoldina Academy: New Members

Leopoldina Academy: New Members

Tercentenary of the Leopoldina Academy, Schweinfurt

Tercentenary of the Leopoldina Academy, Schweinfurt

Tercentenary of the Leopoldina Academy, Halle

Tercentenary of the Leopoldina Academy, Halle