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published 01/01/1978 at 09:05 by Werner Arber I was born on June 3rd, 1929 in Gränichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16. I then entered the gymnasium at the Kantonsschule Aarau where I got a...

published 01/01/1977 at 17:12 by Rosalyn Yalow I was born on July 19, 1921 in New York City and have always resided and worked there except for 3 1/2 years when I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois. Perhaps the earliest memories I have...

published 01/01/1973 at 18:43 by Konrad Lorentz I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development. I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely...

Haldan Keffer Hartline was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, on December 22nd, 1903. His parents were teachers there in the State Normal School (now Bloomsburg State College) where he received his early education. His father, Daniel S. Hartline, was Professor...

published 01/01/1969 at 18:00 Salvador Edward Luria was born on August 13th, 1912, in Torino, Italy. He has been a naturalized citizen of the U.S.A. since January 1947. In 1929 he started his studies in Medicine at the University of Torino, where he obtained...

published 01/01/1969 at 15:44 Alfred Day Hershey was born on December 4th, 1908, in Owosso, Michigan. He studied at the Michigan State College, where he obtained B.S. in 1930, and Ph.D. in 1934. In 1967 he got an honorary D.Sc. at the University of Chicago....

published 01/01/1965 at 18:07 André Michel Lwoff was born on 8 May 1902 in Ainay-le-Château (Allier). He joined the Institut Pasteur at the age of 19. He had graduated in science and had done one year of medicine. Lwoff completed his studies while working...

published 01/01/1965 at 16:09 Archibald Vivian Hill was born in Bristol on September 26,1886. His early education was at Blundell's School, Tiverton, whence he obtained scholarships to Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he studied mathematics and took the...

published 01/01/1964 at 18:51 Feodor Lynen was born in Munich on 6 April 1911, the son of Wilhelm Lynen, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Munich Technische Hochschule. His mother, Frieda, was the daughter of the manufacturer Gustav Prym. Lynen...

Walter Rudolf Hess was born in Frauenfeld, East Switzerland, on March 17, 1881. His father was a teacher of physics who allowed him, at a very early age, great freedom in dealing with apparatus, and taught him a proper carefulness. He also obtained a...

published 01/01/1963 at 17:44 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on February 5th, 1914. His parents were George Hodgkin (who died in Baghdad in 1918) and Mary (Wilson) Hodgkin, now Mrs. Lionel Smith. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was educated at...

Andrew Fielding Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, on 22nd November 1917. His father, Leonard Huxley, who was a son of the nineteenth - century scientist and writer Thomas Huxley, was for a time a classics master at Charterhouse School and later took...

published 01/01/1958 at 17:31 George Wells Beadle was born at Wahoo, Nebraska, U.S.A., October 22, 1903, the son of Chauncey Elmer Beadle, a farmer, and his wife Hattie Albro. George was educated at the Wahoo High School and might himself have become...

Le 29 novembre 1956, Heinrich von Brentano, ministre des Affaires étrangères de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (RFA), décrit devant le Bundestag les enjeux du traité signé le 27 octobre 1956 à Luxembourg par la France et par l'Allemagne afin de régler...

M. André FRANÇOIS-PONCET, avant été élu par l’Académie française à la place vacante par la mort de M. le Maréchal Philippe PÉTAIN, y est venu prendre séance le jeudi 22 janvier 1953 et a prononcé le discours suivant : Messieurs, En m’appelant à siéger...

publié le 22/01/1953 à 17h58 Réponse de M. Pierre Benoit au discours de M. André François-Poncet DISCOURS PRONONCÉ DANS LA SÉANCE PUBLIQUE le jeudi 22 janvier 1953 PARIS PALAIS DE L’INSTITUT Monsieur, Il y a très exactement vingt-deux ans,le jeudi 22...

published 01/01/1953 at 17:49 Fritz Albert Lipmann was born on June 12th, 1899, at Koenigsberg, Germany. He was the son of Leopold Lipmann and his wife Gertrud Lachmanski. Lipmann was educated, during the years 1917-1922, at the Universities of Koenigsberg,...

Le 8 novembre 1950, à l'occasion d'une déclaration gouvernementale sur le Plan Pleven, Heinrich von Brentano, président du groupe parlementaire du Parti chrétien-démocrate (CDU), prononce un discours sur la contribution allemande à la défense de l'Europe....

published 01/01/1950 at 17:05 Philip Showalter Hench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1896, the son of Jacob Bixler Hench and Clara Showalter. After attending local schools he entered Lafayette College, Easton, Penn., where he graduated...

Le 8 mai 1949, Heinrich von Brentano, président de la commission du Conseil parlementaire allemand, y tient un discours à l'occasion de l'adoption de la Loi fondamentale de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (RFA). Mesdames, Messieurs, Il n'est pas facile,...

published 01/01/1949 at 13:44 (Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire) Egas Moniz was born in Avanca, Portugal, on November 29, 1874, the son of Fernando de Pina Rezende Abreu and Maria do Rosario de Almeida e Sousa. He received his early education from his...

On August 16, 1948, denazification proceedings [Spruchkammerverfahren] began against the industrialist Fritz Thyssen (middle). Because Thyssen had supported the National Socialists before 1933 – and because his relationship with them had been laid bare...

Discours radiodiffusé de Jawaharlal Nehru premier ministre indien, le 15 août 1947 à l'occasion de l'accès à l'indépendance de l'Inde Premier serviteur du peuple indien CHERS COMPATRIOTES, ce fut un grand honneur pour moi que de servir l’Inde et la cause...

Les Actes de capitulation du Troisième Reich sont constitués par les deux versions de l'Acte de reddition militaire (en anglais : Act of military surrender), qui constituent le texte légal de la capitulation du Troisième Reich par lequel le Commandement...

La Gottbegnadeten-Liste (« liste de ceux qui bénéficient de la grâce de Dieu ») est établie en août 1944 par Josef Goebbels et Adolf Hitler. Elle donne, sur trente-six pages, les noms des artistes allemands alors vivants et reconnus présents en Allemagne....

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD Berlin, July 6, 1941 30 copies ------------------ 16th copy Einsatzgruppe A Tilsit was used as base for three major cleansing actions, as follows: in Garsden: 201 persons were shot. in Krottingen: 214 persons...

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD Berlin, July 5, 1941 30 copies ------------------ 30th copy Einsatzgruppe B Location: Lvov On July 5, 1941 a non-political and non-party Ukrainian national newspaper appeared for the first time in Lvov. The...

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD Berlin, July 4, 1941 24 copies ----------------- (20th copy) Einsatzgruppe A Location: July 4, 1941 Riga (communication by radiogram) Gruppenleiter SS-Brig. Stachlecker entered Riga with the fighting force....

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD Berlin, July 2, 1941 25 copies ------------------ 23rd copy Operational Situation Report USSR No. 10 Einsatzgruppe B (1) The 17th Army Command has suggested the use first of all of the anti-Jewish and anti-Communist...

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD, Berlin July 2, 1941 25 copies ------------------ 25th copy Einsatzgruppe A: EK 1b On June 28 Vorkommando (1) has moved into Kaunas. It has started its activity, occupying the former trade union building, the...

The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian Jews living in the Nazi-controlled Lithuanian and Polish territories (Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland). Out of approximately 208,000 to 210,000...

Durant la période de l'Occupation allemande, le régime de Vichy a édicté plusieurs lois sur le statut des Juifs, faisant de ces derniers une catégorie à part de la population. L'article 9 du statut des Juifs d'octobre 1940 et l'article 11 du statut de...

published 01/01/1938 at 16:00 Corneille Jean François Heymans was born in Ghent, Belgium, on March 28, 1892. His father was J. F. Heymans, formerly Professor of Pharmacology and Rector of the University of Ghent, who founded the J. F. Heymans Institute...

published 01/01/1936 at 17:31 Otto Loewi was born on June 3, 1873, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the son of Jacob Loewi, a merchant, and Anna Willstätter. After having attended the humanistic Gymnasium (grammar school) in his native town, he entered...

William Parry Murphy was born on February 6, 1892, at Stoughton Wisconsin, U.S.A. He is the son of Thomas Francis Murphy and Rose Anna Parry, his father being a congregational minister with various pastorates in Wisconsin and Oregon. William Parry was...

publié le 22/01/1931 à 12h17 Le 22 janvier 1931 Paul VALÉRY Monsieur, À la mort de l’illustre Foch, il n’y eut aucun doute, ni parmi nous, ni dans le public, sur la personne qui dût ici prendre la place d’un tel chef. Vous fûtes élu dans nos esprits avant...

Camillo Golgi was born at Corteno near Brescia on July 7, 1843*, the son of a physician. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia under Mantegazza, Bizzozero and Oehl. After graduating in 1865 he continued to work in Pavia at the Hospital of St....