Barbara Rose Hooke, a Johns Hopkins cancer researcher who survived World War II and witnessed the destruction of Dresden, died Aug. 20 at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital.

The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to physics and other disciplines were significant too.

Hooke cut a thin slice of cork with a penknife, put it under his microscope, focused sunlight on it with a thick lens, and looked through the eyepiece. What Hooke saw looked like a piece of honeycomb.

Hooke's images, which persist among the most well-known depictions in all of science, appeared along with other natural and fabricated marvels of the microscopic world in Micrographia (1665). The book ...

Alexander E. “Alex” Hooke, a Stevenson University philosophy professor who disliked technology and refused to lock his front door, died Dec. 7 at his Remington home. He was 71.

IN his account of the extraordinarily intriguing, human and intimate part of the ” Diary of Robert Hooke”, published in NATURE of September 7, Prof. Andrade has suggested that the biographer ...

MR. JAMES'S letter is of interest as recording that he personally does not agree with my opinion of the character and temperament of Oldenburg, but it has little objective content. In my article I ...