Haldane

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228002321

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Haldane by John Campbell Pdf

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army, the British Expeditionary Force, the Imperial General Staff, and the Officers' Training Corps? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the "redbrick" universities, and the Medical Research Council? This book restores Richard Burdon Haldane to his rightful place among the great men of British and Canadian history. Serving as war minister in the 1905 Liberal British government, his groundbreaking proposals on defence, education, and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his time – the very building blocks of modern Britain. Even the Canadian Constitution, as now interpreted, is unthinkable without Haldane. His ubiquitous networks ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, king to kaiser; his polymathic interests enabled pioneering cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in 1915 he was ejected from the Lord Chancellorship, unjustly vilified by an ignorant press campaign as a German sympathizer. John Campbell charts these ups and downs, reveals the intensely personal side of Haldane through previously unpublished love letters, and shows his enormous relevance in our search for just societies and states today. Amidst political and national instability, it is surely now right to reinstate Haldane as an outstanding example of true statesmanship.

Author : Frederick Vaughan,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442642379

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Viscount Haldane by Frederick Vaughan,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Pdf

Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane of Cloan, was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely influential in altering the constitutional relations between the federal Parliament and the provincial legislatures. Chafing under the British North American Act of 1867, which provided for a strong central government, the provincial governments appealed to the judicial Committee and were successful in gaining greater provincial legislative autonomy through the constitutional interpretations of the law lords. In Viscount Haldane, Frederick Vaughan concentrates on Haldane's role in these rulings, arguing that his jurisprudence was shaped by his formal study of German philosophy, especially that of G.W.F. Hegel. Vaughan's analysis of Haldane's legal philosophy and its impact on the Canadian constitution concludes that his Hegelian legacy is very much alive in today's Supreme Court of Canada and that it continues to shape the constitution and the lives of Canadians since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Author : Krishna Dronamraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199813345

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Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics by Krishna Dronamraju Pdf

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the mathematical school represented by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and S. Wright to the theory of evolution. Their pioneering contributions from 1918 to the 1960s dominated and shaped the field of population genetics, unique in the annals of science. In 1959, Mayr questioned what he regarded as the beanbag genetic approach of these pioneers to evolutionary theory, "an input or output of genes, as the adding of certain beans to a beanbag and the withdrawing of others." In 1964, Mayr's contention was refuted by Haldane in a remarkably witty, vigorous and pungent essay, "A defense of beanbag genetics" which compared the mathematical theory to a scaffolding within which a reasonably secure theory expressible in words may be built up. Correspondence between Haldane and Mayr is included. Beanbag genetics has come a long way since 1964. Mayr's (1959) critique of simple uncomplicated population genetics is no longer valid. Population genetics today includes much more than Mayr's beanbag genetics. Population genetics models now include multiple factors, linkage, dominance and epistasis. These may be regarded as the advanced beanbag models. Furthermore, population genetics and developmental genetics have become interdependent. Contemporary beanbag genetics includes molecular clocks, nucleotide diversity, coalescence and DNA-based phylogenetic trees, along with the four major holdovers from classical genetics, mutation, selection, migration and random drift. Molecular genetics has made it possible to study evolution rates at the nucleotide level. It is also possible today to compare DNA similarities and divergence in diverse species of animals and plants, which were not previously crossable.

Author : Samanth Subramanian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393634259

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A Dominant Character: How J. B. S. Haldane Transformed Genetics, Became a Communist, and Risked His Neck for Science by Samanth Subramanian Pdf

One of the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2020 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020 A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. J. B. S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World War, where he wrote his first scientific paper; to his numerous experiments on himself, including inhaling dangerous levels of carbon dioxide and drinking hydrochloric acid; to his clandestine research for the British Admiralty during the Second World War. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers hailed him as a polymath. One student called him “the last man who might know all there was to be known.” He foresaw in vitro fertilization, peak oil, and the hydrogen fuel cell, and his contributions ranged over physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, mathematics, and biostatistics. He was also a staunch Communist, which led him to Spain during the Civil War and sparked suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously on science and politics in newspapers and magazines, and he gave speeches in town halls and on the radio—all of which made him, in his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. It is the duty of scientists to think politically, Haldane believed, and he sought not simply to tell his readers what to think but to show them how to think. Beautifully written and richly detailed, Samanth Subramanian’s A Dominant Character recounts Haldane’s boisterous life and examines the questions he raised about the intersections of genetics and politics—questions that resonate even more urgently today.

Author : Gavan Tredoux
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594039843

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Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday by Gavan Tredoux Pdf

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane F.R.S. (1892–1964) was one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century, renowned for helping, through statistical wizardry, to reconcile Darwin’s theory of natural selection with Mendel’s discovery of genes. The product of a distinguished family of scientists and public figures, “JBS” trained and influenced a swathe of students and colleagues at Oxford, Cambridge, and University College London, many of whom, such as the evolutionary theorist John Maynard Smith, went on to distinction in their own right. As a widely known left-wing “public intellectual,” Haldane gained fame as a popularizer of science and commentator on public affairs, broadcasting often on the BBC and publishing extensively in newspapers and magazines. His collections of popular scientific essays influenced a generation of upcoming scientists and remain in print today. On his death in 1964, he was accorded the rare tribute of a televised self-obituary on the BBC. Celebrated for his ability to connect seemingly disparate subjects, during the Second World War Haldane was extensively involved in scientific research to aid the British war effort. Using evidence gathered from VENONA Signals Intelligence intercepts, MI5 files, and the Haldane papers, this book reveals that Haldane was also a Soviet spy—a member of the “X Group,” an espionage ring that was run out of the Soviet Embassy in London. His interlocking associations with other spies, such as Ivor Montagu and Hans Kahle; his role as a hardline Stalinist propagandist through the onset of the Cold War; his betrayal of his colleague and friend, the Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov; his long-standing support for the charlatan Soviet “scientist” Trofim D. Lysenko; and his concealed stalemate with the Communist Party of Great Britain once his ability to finesse Lysenko was extinguished, are unraveled here for the first time.

Author : Greville Ewing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Church of Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000590730

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Facts and documents respecting the connections which have subsisted between Robert Haldane, Esq. and G. Ewing; laid before the public, in consequence of letters which the former has addressed to the latter, respecting the Tabernacle at Glasgow. By G. Ewing by Greville Ewing Pdf

Author : Alexander HALDANE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019207450

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The Lives of R. Haldane ... and of J. A. Haldane. Fourth Edition by Alexander HALDANE Pdf

Author : Krishna R. Dronamraju
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317667216

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Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane (Routledge Revivals) by Krishna R. Dronamraju Pdf

First published in 1990, this is a compilation of several important papers that have contributed to the foundation of population genetics, evolutionary biology and human genetics. The collection includes Haldane’s first paper in genetics, which was published in 1915, reporting the first case of linkage in a mammal, and - fifty years later, in 1965 - his last paper in genetics on selection for a single pair of allelomorphs with complete replacement. Haldane's Rule, the only idea named after him, was published in 1922 and is still valid today. Other papers, which include many Haldane firsts, such as the first estimation of a human mutation rate, first human gene map, first papers in population genetics, first estimate of the probability of fixation of a new mutation, and first measurement of mutation impact on a population, leading to the "genetic load" concept, are included. The volume also includes a paper presenting an ancient logical system for interpreting scientific results.

Author : Alexander Haldane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Clergy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081269680

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Memoirs of the Lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey, and of His Brother, James Alexander Haldane by Alexander Haldane Pdf

Author : Rev. Robert MENZIES (Translator.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024185769

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Answer to Mr. Robert Haldane's strictures on the translation of Dr. Tholuck's exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, etc by Rev. Robert MENZIES (Translator.) Pdf

Author : Frederick Vaughan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442693869

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Viscount Haldane by Frederick Vaughan Pdf

Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely influential in altering the constitutional relations between the federal parliament and the provincial legislatures. Chafing under the British North America Act of 1867, which provided for a strong central government, the provincial governments appealed to the Judicial Committee and were successful in gaining greater provincial legislative autonomy through the constitutional interpretations of the law lords. In Viscount Haldane, Frederick Vaughan concentrates on Haldane's role in these rulings, arguing that his jurisprudence was shaped by his formal study of German philosophy, especially that of G.W.F. Hegel. Vaughan's analysis of Haldane's legal philosophy and its impact on the Canadian constitution concludes that his Hegelian legacy is very much alive in today's Supreme Court of Canada and that it continues to shape the constitution and the lives of Canadians since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Author : Krishna R. Dronamraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199333929

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Popularizing Science by Krishna R. Dronamraju Pdf

Family background and early life (ancestry, childhood, education) -- Charlotte and sex viri (marriage and scandal, sex viri) -- Eugenics and predictions -- Population genetics -- Evolutionary biology -- On being a guinea pig -- Chemical genetics -- Origin of life -- Human genetics -- The Marxist years -- Lysenko controversy -- Helen Spurway (second wife) -- Popularizing science -- Haldane and Huxley -- Relations with other scientists -- Moving to paradise -- Life in paradise (1957-1964) (death) -- Haldane and religion -- Impact of Haldane today

Author : Seán Haldane
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466878129

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The Devil's Making by Seán Haldane Pdf

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coexisting beside a population of native Indians that vastly outnumbers them. Their cautious peace is challenged when a body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American alienist whose methods included phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation. Chad Hobbes, recently arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime. At first it seems the murderer was an Indian medicine man who has already been arrested. It would be easy for Hobbes to let him swing for the murder, but his own interest in an Indian woman from the same tribe causes him to look at the case in more detail. And once he does, he discovers that everyone who knew McCrory seems to have something to hide. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, Sean Haldane's The Devil's Making portrays a frontier where cultures clashed on the eve of a new country's birth.

Author : Krishna Dronamraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199813704

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Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics by Krishna Dronamraju Pdf

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the mathematical school represented by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and S. Wright to the theory of evolution. Their pioneering contributions from 1918 to the 1960s dominated and shaped the field of population genetics, unique in the annals of science. In 1959, Mayr questioned what he regarded as the beanbag genetic approach of these pioneers to evolutionary theory, "an input or output of genes, as the adding of certain beans to a beanbag and the withdrawing of others." In 1964, Mayr's contention was refuted by Haldane in a remarkably witty, vigorous and pungent essay, "A defense of beanbag genetics" which compared the mathematical theory to a scaffolding within which a reasonably secure theory expressible in words may be built up. Correspondence between Haldane and Mayr is included. Beanbag genetics has come a long way since 1964. Mayr's (1959) critique of simple uncomplicated population genetics is no longer valid. Population genetics today includes much more than Mayr's beanbag genetics. Population genetics models now include multiple factors, linkage, dominance and epistasis. These may be regarded as the advanced beanbag models. Furthermore, population genetics and developmental genetics have become interdependent. Contemporary beanbag genetics includes molecular clocks, nucleotide diversity, coalescence and DNA-based phylogenetic trees, along with the four major holdovers from classical genetics, mutation, selection, migration and random drift. Molecular genetics has made it possible to study evolution rates at the nucleotide level. It is also possible today to compare DNA similarities and divergence in diverse species of animals and plants, which were not previously crossable.

Author : John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Biochemistry
ISBN : UIUC:30112119567854

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Enzymes by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Pdf