Golden Rules of Anaesthesia, a waistcoat pocket-sized book by Robert James Probyn-Williams was published in three editions between 1904 and 1908. It may be the smallest English-language book on anaesthesia.

After 9/11, states looked at transportation as if it was a matter of paying taxes: "We cannot make it fun, but we can make it efficient." When traveling, we are asked to pass on data, give body samples, and pass through body scanners in the name of the general interest ...

The 2010 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene. Some personal perspectives about this award are presented.

The community of scientists should celebrate the Nobel Prize, even if awards bestowed on one discipline are associated with another discipline. A new prize might help.

The Nobel Prizes will be announced at the beginning of October. Is there a possibility that immunology might make the list?

I would like to express my deep appreciation to the Sabin Institute for this really great honor. I feel humbled to be receiving an award commemorating one of the great heroes of vaccinology, Albert Sabin, and to be in the company of past recipients of this award, all of whom ...

The most valuable texts of 2009, as chosen by AJN's panel of judges.

Lists the 2009 winners of the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (Susan E. Carey, Alica H. Eagly, and Steven F. Maier). Also included are the winners of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology (Nancy E. Adler) and Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (Adam K. ...

The Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award is given jointly by Psi Chi and APA. The 2009 recipient is Joseph H. Hammer. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Hammer's works are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).

This professional autobiography is based on a talk given as the recipient of the 2009 Bruno Klopfer Distinguished Contribution Award. It includes a discussion of 5 of my habits that might be useful as a guide for future awardees including 1. send everything that you write to everyone you know ...

The Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, has made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems. The 2009 winner of this award is Nancy E. Adler. ...

Awards given to medical school faculty are one important mechanism for recognizing what is valued in academic medicine. There have been concerns expressed about the gender distribution of awards, and there is also a growing appreciation for the evolving accomplishments and talents that define academic excellence in the 21st century ...

Undergraduate project for "Directed Studies 493" in the Dept. of Geography/Anthropology, Spring 2005. Submitted by instructor B. Jill Smith for student award in the 2005 cycle.

The William P. Yant Award was established in 1964 to commemorate the leadership and breadth of contributions to industrial hygiene of William P. Yant, ScD, first president of AIHA. Sponsored by the Mine Safety Appliances Company the award is presented for outstanding contributions in industrial hygiene or allied fields made ...

The name of Lewis P. Lipsitt, winner of a 1993 AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, was misspelled in last month's "Inside AAAS." We regret the error.-Ed.

"How the Baldrige Award Really Works" by David A. Garvin draws on a series of in-depth discussions with Baldrige Award judges and senior examiners to give the first clear account of the real purpose and operation of the prestigious--and contentious--award. Accompanying the article is "An Open Letter on TQM," a ...

Shirey Malcom, in her editorial "Plugging the pipeline" (18 Oct., p. 353) mentions the AAAS Mentor Award and directs readers to page 387 of that issue. Because of a printer's error, a Call for Nominations for the Mentor Award did not appear on page 387 and appears instead in this ...

The authors have devised a cart for use during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the prime purpose of which is to bring every essential piece of equipment, and all the drugs generally required, to the immediate area to revive a pulseless and/or apneic patient with the least effort and confusion. The strategically placed ...

The White House announced last week that J. Robert Oppenheimer would be the recipient of the Atomic Energy Commission's 1963 Fermi prize. The prize, which is accompanied by a $50,000 award, is given for "especially meritorious contribution to the development, use or control of atomic energy," and, as such, is ...

The Swedish Academy of Sciences announced last week that Lev Davidovich Landau, a Soviet scientist, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his studies of the low-temperature characteristics of helium. It was simultaneously announced that the prize in chemistry has been awarded to two Britons, John Cowdery Kendrew ...