Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Karl F Meyer


  
  Biotech @ 25: UC Scientists - Meyer
Meyer was on the faculty of the University of California for sixty-one years, including thirty years as Director of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research (1924-1954), the University’s first biology research facility.
Meyer, or "KF" as he was familiarly known, was educated in his native Switzerland, and came to Berkeley in 1913 as Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Protozoology.
In 1928, Meyer began to refer to the disease in California as 'sylvatic plague' and predicted that "plague is going to be an infection with which we have to learn to live." He proposed that large reservoirs of Pasteurella pestis reside in wild rodents.
bancroft.berkeley.edu /Exhibits/Biotech/meyer.html   (1024 words)

  
 Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884-1974): A History of the UCSF School of Medicine
Karl F. Meyer (or "K.F." as he was known to the scientific world) was born in 1884 in Basel, Switzerland.
Meyer was well received as the teacher of medical microbiology, and was a full Professor by the age of thirty.
Meyer organized the Department of Bacteriology at UC, and in the college of Letters and Science at Berkeley, serving as Chairman of both departments until 1948, while also directing the affairs of the Hooper foundation.
history.library.ucsf.edu /biographies/biographies_meyer.html   (758 words)

  
 Lawrence F. Kahn
Meyer, Karl F., and Kahn, Lawrence F., Lightweight Concrete Reduces Weight and Increases Span Length of Pretensioned Concrete Bridge Girders, PCI JOURNAL V. 47, No. 1, January-February 2002, pp.
Meyer, Karl F., and Kahn, Lawrence, Shear Behavior of Pretensioned Girders Constructed with Slate High Strength Lightweight Concrete, Proceedings PCI National Bridge Conference, Atlanta, Oct.17-20, 2004, pp.
Meyer, Karl F., and Kahn, Lawrence, Transfer and Development Length of Pretensioned Girders Constructed with Slate High Strength Lightweight Concrete, Proceedings PCI National Bridge Conference, Atlanta, Oct.17-20, 2004, pp.
www.ce.gatech.edu /fac_staff/faculty_cv.php?active_id=lk10   (5422 words)

  
 Karl Meyer (Carlos Meyer Baldo)
Meyer was fighting in Russia for almost one year where he got decorated with the Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg in November of 1915 and promoted to Leutnant der Reserve.
It is assumed that his final air victory was an English balloon that he shot down on the same afternoon but this victory had not been confirmed.
Carlos Meyer returned to Venezuela in spring of 1926 to start business with his cousin Lucio Baldó in Caracas where he lived near the German comunity of El Paraiso.
www.jastaboelcke.de /aces/carlos_meyer_baldo/karl_meyer_bio.htm   (829 words)

  
 UCSF - Mission Bay - Making History
UCSF began to develop its stellar research reputation in the 1920s when Karl F. Meyer established the only laboratory in the Western Hemisphere to study plague and encephalitis.
UCSF scientists also are credited with discovering vitamin E, developing new dysentery treatments, introducing new anesthetics, mass-producing a plague vaccine for World War II soldiers and establishing the nation's first cancer research center.
Karl F. Meyer originates protective measures that save the canning industry from botulism.
pub.ucsf.edu /missionbay/history/discovery.php   (898 words)

  
 EuMaG - The European Master in Gerontology
Since October 2004 Martha Meyer has been a full Professor of nursing sciences at university of applied sciences -HTW- des Saarlandes at Saarbrücken.
She is involved in the development of a new faculty of health and nursing and lecturer in the Bachelor programme Management and Expertise for Health professionals and development of a gerontology module for nursing professionals.
Meyer M. The Current State and Developments in Gerontology in European Higher Education.In: Educational Gerontology, 29(1)(2003).
www.eumag.org /partners.show.php?pid=27   (475 words)

  
 Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award: Will Hueston - College of Veterinary Medicine - University of ...
Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award: Will Hueston - College of Veterinary Medicine - University of Minnesota
Will Hueston, director of the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, was presented with the Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award at the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center on July 16, 2005.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
www.cvm.umn.edu /about/awardwinners/CaneAward.html   (208 words)

  
 Philatelic Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Philatelic Collection dates from 1978, when the Library acquired 76 volumes of postage stamps and related philatelic materials from the estate of Dr. Karl F. Meyer (1884-1974).
Trained as a veterinarian, Dr. Meyer spent more that 60 years studying a wide range of infectious diseases.
The Meyer Collection was further enhanced in 1993, when the Library received a large donation of postage stamps from Dr. Morris M. Weiss, a cardiologist in Louisville, KY.
ar.utmb.edu /areas/informresources/collections/blocker/stamps.asp   (314 words)

  
 Karl Marx vs Meyer (1867)
I think your definition of price for living in these worlds will be much more interesting than saying it's evil or good without question.
: It seems that Karl Marx's chess play was historically conditioned.
I don't opt for the full slate, there are points liberals take that I find repugnant, but most of liberalism has history to support it, or far far less underworld to hide it.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1278768   (1485 words)

  
 America 1950-1959: Medicine and Health History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
MacFarlane Burnet, for fundamentally modifying knowledge of viruses and of the inheritance of characteristics by viruses.
1954: Edwin B. Astwood, for research on endocrine function leading to the control of hyperthyroidism; John F. Enders, for the cultivation of the viruses of poliomyelitis, mumps, and measles.
1956: Karl Meyer and Francis O. Schmitt, for studies of the biochemical components of connective tissues contributing to an understanding of arthritis and rheumatic diseases.
www.bookrags.com /history-america-1950s-medicine-and-health/sub40.html   (467 words)

  
 UCSF - Mission Bay - Mission Bay Overview
By providing unprecedented room for growth at Mission Bay, UCSF scientists can build upon the excellence that has brought to humanity significant breakthroughs in science since the University's founding as Toland Medical College in 1864.
UCSF's road to discovery is long and distinguished — from Karl F. Meyer's measures to save the canning industry from the paralyzing disease botulism in the 1920s to the UCSF-led research that has recently produced the first drug that can be mass-produced to prevent or treat botulism, now considered one of the greatest bioterrorism threats.
Today, UCSF is ranked as the fourth-largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research funds among all institutions in 2001, receiving $350.4 million in the highly competitive process.
pub.ucsf.edu /missionbay/overview   (519 words)

  
 richard f meyer - ResearchIndex document query   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
However, Eiffel [Meyer 88] could be the language that better illustrates
As is quoted in [Meyer 92c]without assertions it is not possible to
Satisfaction Harald Meyer auf'm Hofe Deutsches Forschungsinstitut fur Kunstliche Intelligenz
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Richard+F.+Meyer   (496 words)

  
 American Public Health Association - Sections SPIGs and Caucuses - Awards - The 1999 Sedgwick Memorial Medal Recipient   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Frederick F. Russell, MD Lester Breslow, MD, MPH
Charles Armstrong, MD Dwight F. Metzler, CE, SM Winslow, DrPH
Karl F. Meyer, MD Henrik L. Blum, MD, MPH
www.apha.org /sections/Awards/05_awards/sedgwick_past.htm   (229 words)

  
 EVHS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1891, Dr. Leonard Pearson initiated the tuberculosis testing of cattle to help stop the spread of this disease to both man and other cattle.
Karl F. Meyer saved America' s canning industry by developing a method to prevent botulism.
Peter Dougherty won the 1996 Nobel prize for medicine and physiology.
www.evhs.org /about.asp   (417 words)

  
 UCSF School of Medicine - Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
The department offered special seminars and medical students were encouraged to try historical research.
Significant publications were made by staff members, including important items by Evans, Karl F. Meyer, Salvatore P. Lucia, and Veith.
In order to encourage all students at the San Francisco campus to become interested in the historical and humanistic aspects of their studies, the name was changed in 1965 to the Department of the History of the Health Sciences
www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu /dept_history.aspx   (1484 words)

  
 Major NIH Lectures, Listed by Lecture
Meyer, Karl F. The Natural History of Plague and Psittacosis
Singer, Maxine F. Monkey Business: Sequences in the Monkey Genome and their Interaction with Simian Virus 40 DNA
Cori, Carl F. Enzymatic Analysis of the Structure of Starch and Glycogen
www1.od.nih.gov /wals/ByLecture.htm   (3345 words)

  
 Hueston to be Honored - College of Veterinary Medicine - University of Minnesota
Will Hueston to be honored at AVMA conference
Presentation of Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award to Dr. Will Hueston
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (July 15, 2005) -- Dr. Will Hueston, director of the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, will be presented with the Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award at the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
www.cvm.umn.edu /newsandevents/Hueston.html   (236 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.