[Xmca-l] Re: [Fwd: Request from Karger publishing on their 125th anniversary]

[Andy Blunden]

Perhaps one of the papers by Luria which Mike has in his collection:
http://luria.ucsd.edu/Articles-by-Luria/Luria-by-Language.html

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Goncu, Artin wrote:
> Are there any suggestions from the xmca community?  You can either write
> to Larry Nucci directly or send me your suggestions and I will forward
> them to him.  Best, ag
>
>
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> Subject: Request from Karger publishing on their 125th anniversary
> From:    "Larry Nucci" <nucci@berkeley.edu>
> Date:    Wed, January 21, 2015 5:22 pm
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> Cc:      "Karger, Gabriella" <g.karger@karger.com>
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>
> Dear Members of the HD Editorial Board -
>
> This year marks the 125th anniversary of Karger Publishing.  As many of you
> know, Karger is one of the few remaining family owned scientific
> publishers.  They have been remarkably supportive of Human Development.  I
> recently received the request below from Gabriella Karger that is connected
> with the activities she is coordinating to mark this special occasion.
> Please take a moment to read her request, and send any suggestions for such
> highly significant research papers to me, so that I may gather together
> your suggestions and send them to her.
>
>
> With best regards,
>
> Larry
>
> Dear Professor Nucci,
>
> Whilst the year is still young, I am contacting you as Editor of Human
> Development, for your input and advice. As you may already know, Karger
> Publishers will celebrate its 125th anniversary this year. To mark this
> occasion, we would like to attempt something a little out of the ordinary.
> When my great-grand father founded the publishing house, English wasn't the
> scientific “lingua franca”. This is a relatively recent phenomenon, many
> great scientists published their work in other languages. Good translations
> are often either unavailable or difficult to locate. Being able to
> understand the meaning of what the original author wrote and this
> often-cited foundations upon which modern work is built, is surely of vital
> importance.
>
> During our anniversary year, we would like to put together a "collection"
> of the most significant scientific work that was not originally published
> in English and make a corresponding collection of translations available to
> the scientific community on our website. May we kindly appeal to you to
> help us with this? The challenge is to identify the most important articles
> in the whole field of biomedical science. *If you would let us know a
> handful of the most significant papers in your field of expertise not
> available in English *(naming author, title and wherever possible, the
> source), we will check whether a translation of suitable quality already
> exists, look into the copyright issue and arrange to have an english
> translation made if none is available. Mendel's pioneering work (Versuche
> über Pflanzen-Hybriden) dating from 1865/6 is a suitable starting point in
> time.
>
> We do hope that you can participate with us together in what should
> hopefully prove to be an interesting project. Raising the profile of
> milestones in science and making these more accessible, should benefit all.
>
>