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Cicely D. Williams, “ A Nutritional Disease of Childhood Associated with a Maize Diet”, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, volume 8, 1933, page 423.

  Cicely D. Williams, “A Nutritional Disease in Childhood Associated with a Maize Diet”, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, volume 8, 1933, page 423 is the first description of “kwashiorkor”. Kwashiorkor is a starvation of protein. This is to distinguish kwashiorkor from caloric-starvation. Proteins are amino acid polymers. Kwashiorkor is a deficiency of amino acids … Continue reading Cicely D. Williams, “ A Nutritional Disease of Childhood Associated with a Maize Diet”, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, volume 8, 1933, page 423.

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Jacques Cousteau, “The Silent World”, 1953.

  Jacques Cousteau, “The Silent World”, 1953 was a nonfiction science book. Rachel Carson (nature writer) writes the foreword to this book. Rachel Carson’s, “Silent Spring” was the book 1960’s generation environmental movement bible. Jacques Cousteau, “The Silent World”, 1953 was foundational to the conservation movement. Jacques Cousteau was an incredible oceanographer, and marine biologist. … Continue reading Jacques Cousteau, “The Silent World”, 1953.

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Carl Sagan, "Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science", 1979.

  Terrence Deacon, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and Brain“, 1997 was the topic of an earlier blog.   Carl Sagan, “Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, 1979 was nonfiction science writing on neurolinguistics  as well.  Pierre Paul Broca was a French neurologist that discovered that “aphasia” (language absence) is located … Continue reading Carl Sagan, "Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science", 1979.

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Carl Sagan, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, 1980.

Carl Sagan, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, 1980 was nonfiction science during the Cold War era.  More than 5 million copies of this book were sold.  As a writer of science-fiction Carl Sagan later wrote “Contact”, in 1985, which was about close encounter  .  Continue reading Carl Sagan, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, 1980.

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David Weininger, “SMILES, a chemical language and information system”, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, volume 28, 1 February 1988, page 31-36.

David Weininger, “SMILES, a chemical language and information system”, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 1988 was a transitional step. SMILES (Simplified Molecular Identity Line Entry System) is ASCII string representation of a chemical. SMILES is also a chemical language. Carl Linnaeus had in his systematics a binomial nomenclature for chemicals. Antoine Lavoisier, rejected … Continue reading David Weininger, “SMILES, a chemical language and information system”, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, volume 28, 1 February 1988, page 31-36.