An international jury, chaired by Professor Daniel Roche ( Collège de France, Paris ), and formed by Professors Jean Boutier and Alain Dewerpe ( France ), Peter Jones ( UK ), Marcello Verga ( Italy ) and Bartolomé Yun Casalila ( Spain ), gave the first prize to Italian historian Beatrice Palmero.

The first six books of Against the Mathematicians are commonly known as Against the Professors, but each book also has a traditional title ( Against the Grammarians ( book I ), Against the Rhetoricians ( book II ), Against the Geometricians ( book III ), Against the Arithmeticians ( book IV ), Against the Astrologers ( book V ), Against the Musicians ( book VI ).

Professors from Aachen aided at developing the curricula for the currently five study programs and scientific staff took over some of the first courses.

Professor Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Professor Peter Doherty received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their revolutionary work in immunology ; Professors Doherty and Zinkernagel first met and worked together at The John Curtin School of Medical Research.

2004 SHU appointed its first clinical medical Honorary Professors.

By the turn of the century the first degrees were awarded and Hatton, along with several other Professors, were recognised as Teachers of the University of London.

He later left Oxford and went on to become one of the first Professors of Law at the then new London School of Economics.

Soc., 1821 ) and in 1820 and 1821 he investigated the geology of parts of Anglesey, the results being printed in the first volume of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ( 1822 ), the foundation of which society was originated in November 1819 by a group at Cambridge with Professors Farish, Lee, and Sedgwick and Henslow ( at that time not yet a professor ).

The first Slade Professors were John Ruskin, at Oxford, and Matthew Digby Wyatt at Cambridge ; Edward Poynter RA.

In White's honor, in 1973, Cornell named two professorships after him: the first two Cornell faculty to become Horace White Professors were Michael Fisher and Jack Kiefer.

At its second meeting on 24 November 1983, Senate elected the first set of four persons to represent it on the university's Governing Council: Professors M. O. Olofinboba, L. K. Opeke, D. A. Okorie and Mr. F. A. Akinyotu.

The American Association of University Professors published its first " Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities " in 1920, “ emphasizing the importance of faculty involvement in personnel decisions, selection of administrators, preparation of the budget, and determination of educational policies.

' Another of our Professors — J. E. Thorold Rogers — though perhaps scarcely a celebrity, was well known outside Oxford, partly because he was the first person to relinquish the clerical character under the Act of 1870, partly because of his really learned labours in history and economics, and partly because of his Rabelaisian humour.

He was ranked first in the BT examination. Also his general work was praised as being of high quality by his British Professors at the London Day Training College of London University.

He was a past chairman of the Central University Professors Association and the first council chair of the Chinese Nutrition Society.

Bainbridge was Head of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1999 to 2007, and was one of the first four Professors to be appointed in 2000 with the Academy's status as a constituent college of the University of London.

Lauer, Helena: The role of the first five Elder Professors in the development of music in the Elder Conservatorium, 1885-1985 ( MA diss.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

He was first deacon of church of St Bartholomew in his native Liège and was then appointed ( c. 1100 ) to St. Lambert's Cathedral.

The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two curule aediles were appointed — at first from the patricians alone, then from patricians and plebeians in turn, lastly, from either — at the Tribal Assembly under the presidency of the consul.

As the scene of his activity, Rav first chose Nehardea, where the exilarch appointed him agoranomos, or market-master, and Rabbi Shela made him lecturer ( amora ) of his college ( Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra v. 15a ; Yoma, 20b ).

He appointed seventy-two abbreviators, of whom twelve were of the upper, or greater, and twenty-two of the lower, or lesser, presidency ( Parco ), and thirty-eight examiners on first appearance of letters.

After recovering in early 1915, he was appointed to be brigade major first of 112th Brigade and then with 104th Brigade under training in Lancashire.

Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen that oversaw the missionary work in Scandinavia until 1103, had appointed bishops to Sweden at least from 1014 onwards, the first see being in Skara.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

The first such British High Commissioner was appointed to Ottawa in 1928.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

As a likely consequence, it was after that that the first disciples of Confucius were appointed to government positions.

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

The first cardinal from the family was appointed in 1206 when Giovanni Colonna di Carbognano was made Cardinal Deacon of SS.

Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.

Chiang's appointments, the first time that Muslims had been appointed as governors of Gansu, increased the prestige of Muslim officials in northwestern China.

Upon returning to South Africa in 1958, Barnard was appointed cardiothoracic surgeon at the Groote Schuur Hospital, establishing the hospital's first heart unit.

Cyril got in trouble again when he appointed his nephew to bishop of Caesarea ; this was not the first time Cyril had appointed someone close to him to a high position in the Church.

It established Diocese of Samogitia, with seat in Medininkai and subordinated to Lithuanian dioceses, and appointed Matthias of Trakai as the first bishop.

In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first " anime ambassador.

In 2008, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Doraemon as the first anime cultural ambassador.

The first woman to have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, Bertha Wilson was also a graduate from Dalhousie Law School.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.