Union Catalogue of Scientific Libraries in the University of Cambridge. Scientific Conference Proceedings 1644-1972.

Isis ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-123
Author(s):  
Robert H. Kargon
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Scientific Libraries ◽  
The University

CONGENITAL MENTAL RETARDATION: ADVANCES IN MENTAL SCIENCE I, edited by Gordon Farrell, M.D. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1969, 356 pp., $10.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 833-833
Author(s):  
Allen C. Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
Current Status Data ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Minimal Cost ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Status Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Conference Publication

This reviewer would like to propose a coda for the publication of scientific conference proceedings: (a) the printed work must be distributed within 12 months of the time of the conference; and, (b) minimal cost (paperback) presentation should be utilized as a demonstration of the transient value of the arbitrary collection of papers represented. The volume reported here illustrates well the hazards of conference publication–many of the chapters included are splendid, but the work is in no sense systematic or lastingly authoritative, and a full 2 years elapsed between the original preparation of the 1967 current-status data reports and its appearance in published form.

INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Faith Mkwesha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First Language ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).  Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

2005 Verriest Medal awarded to Professor John D. Mollon

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. ii-ii
Keyword(s):  
Color Vision ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Visual Neuroscience ◽  
Evolutionary Origins ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Color Vision Tests ◽  
Spectral Coding ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The International Colour Vision Society awarded the 2005 Verriest Medal to John D. Mollon, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK. This award is bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the field of color vision. If the field of color vision were itself a rainbow, then Professor Mollon's contributions cover nearly its full spectrum, including the isolation and elucidation of basic chromatic coding mechanisms and the constraints that they impose on human (and more generally primate) visual performance, the genetic basis of spectral coding mechanisms, the ecological influences on and evolutionary origins of chromatic discrimination. He has been instrumental in the design of several new color vision tests and has extensively exploited abnormal models, both congenital and acquired, to further our understanding of normal mechanisms. He is especially appreciated for his keen and profound sense of the history of science, in particular with respect to the field of color vision. He has been a member of the society for over 25 years and is currently serving on its board of directors. He organized the 2001 ICVS meeting in Cambridge, celebrating the bicentennial of Thomas Young's lecture on color vision.

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