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...courses emphasize the reading of the great classics, as well as the best of scholarly commentaries. Students will learn their biology through Darwin's "Origin of Species," their psychology through the writings of Pavlov. Their physics will include the works of Galileo, Newton, and Von Helmholtz...
...concerned with the development of the individual, and later, when they get into the Reformation, with the individual in relation to God. Their biology may begin with Darwin's Origin of Species, their psychology with the writings of Pavlov; their physics will include the works of Von Helmholtz. Even their foreign languages will be involved in the study of ideas-Voltaire in French, Cervantes in Spanish, Dante in Italian...
...Imports. As rector, Werner Richter hopes to spread his "universal approach." The university he heads was once one of Germany's greatest-a place that boasted such great names as Historian von Treitschke and Physicist von Helmholtz, such alumni as Nietzsche and Carl Schurz. But like other German institutions, it had fallen into rigid habits -a narrow scholarship for narrow specialists...
A.M.A.'s birth in 1847, Fishbein thinks, ranks in historical and scientific importance with two other events of that same year: Helmholtz's discovery of the law of conservation of energy and the first use of chloroform in anesthesia. In those days, it took only 16 weeks of medical study to get a doctor's diploma. The A.M.A. was founded, by a zealous doctor named Nathan Smith Davis, primarily to raise medical training standards...
Scientists have debated such possibilities for nearly a hundred years. The great physicist Helmholtz believed that life was brought to the earth by meteorites.* Laboratory workers have known for some time that bacteria and other living cells can survive extreme cold close to absolute zero ( - 273.18 C.), the supposed temperature of interplanetary space. The University of California's Professor Charles B. Lipman once claimed that he had actually found living bacteria locked in meteorites millions of years...