After our Lancet paper was published in 1984, Robin and I went out to dinner with our wives, and we were having a few drinks and I let slip that I'd done the experiment.
This building is still occupied by the descendants of Giuseppe Viti (1816-60), a merchant who travelled the world selling Volterra's most famous commodity - alabaster.
By age 15, he had become an apprentice to Sylvain Bailly, a well-known dessert chef with a successful bakery in one of Paris's most fashionable neighborhoods.
The so-called grand style of common law is a new legal theory proposed by Professor Karl Llewellyn, a well-known American legal realist, to replace the legal formalism.
Theology is unnecessary. So says Stephen Hawking, the world-famous physicist who controversially argues in a new book that God did not create the universe.
The Jiang-Han Plain is one of China's well-known regions criss- crossed with waters, where an area of about 24 thousand square kilometers calls for seismic exploration.