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"Colin Dann (born 10 March 1943 in Richmond, Surrey) is an English author. He is best known for his The Animals of Farthing Wood series of books, which was subsequently made into an animated series. Dann worked at the publishing firm William Collins, Sons & Co. for thirteen years, and his first novel, The Animals of Farthing Wood, was written during this period. The original cover for this and a dozen others was painted by Portal artist Frances Broomfield. Books Farthing Wood series * The Animals of Farthing Wood (1979) * In the Grip of Winter (1981) * Fox's Feud (1982) * The Fox Cub Bold (1983) * The Siege of White Deer Park (1985) * In the Path of the Storm (1989) * Battle for the Park (1992) * Farthing Wood - The Adventure Begins (1994) King of the Vagabonds series * King of the Vagabonds (1987) * The City Cats (1992) * Copycat (1997) Other books *The Ram of Sweetriver (1986) * The Beach Dogs (1988) * Just Nuffin (1990) * A Great Escape (1990) * Legacy of Ghosts (1991) *Nobody's Dog (1999) The Lions of Lingmere series *Journey to Freedom (1999) *Lion Country (2000) *Pride of the Plains (2002) References External links * SciFan Colin Dann Bibliography 1943 births Living people English children's writers People from Richmond, London 20th-century English novelists "
"Thomas Dale "Tom" Emberton, Sr. (born 1932), is a retired Kentucky politician and judge who was the Republican nominee for his state's governorship in the 1971 election. Of note, Mitch McConnell worked on his campaign. Backed by term-limited Governor Louie B. Nunn, Emberton lost to the Democratic Lieutenant Governor Wendell H. Ford, later a U.S. senator. Ford polled 470,720 votes (50.6 percent) to Emberton's 412,653 (44.3 percent). Former Democratic U.S. Senator and Governor Happy Chandler of Versailles received the remaining 39,493 votes (5.1 percent), running as an Independent. Prior to his gubernatorial candidacy, Emberton served as a member of the Public Service Commission in the Nunn administration. In 1980, Emberton ran in Kentucky's 5th congressional district but lost the primary to the eventual winner, Hal Rogers of Somerset in Pulaski County, who still holds the seat.. In 1987, Democratic Governor Wallace Wilkinson appointed Emberton to fill a vacancy on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. He held that position until his retirement in 2004. Emberton resides in Edmonton, the seat of Metcalfe County in southern Kentucky. http://preview.ussearch.com/preview/newsearch;jsessionid=8488FBB2DB4AF26C20E5AD6C75791391?searchFName=thomas&searchMName;=d&searchLName;=emberton&searchCity;=&searchState;=KY&searchApproxAge;=73&adID;=10002101&searchtab;=people&x;=50&y;=11 References Judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals Living people 1932 births Kentucky Republicans People from Metcalfe County, Kentucky Kentucky lawyers "
"Otto Frank (21 June 1865 – 12 November 1944) was a German born doctor and physiologist who made several important contributions to cardiac physiology and cardiology. The Frank–Starling law of the heart is named after him and Ernest Starling. Family and early life (Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand) Otto Frank was born in Groß-Umstadt and was the son of Georg Frank (1838–1907), a doctor of medicine and a practicing physician, and Mathilde Lindenborn (1841–1906). Otto Frank was married to Theres Schuster in a Catholic wedding in München .Katner, Wilhelm, „Frank, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Otto“, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 5 (1961), S. 335 f. Training and Work Otto Frank studied medicine in München and Kiel between 1884 and 1889 (approbation in München 1889). During 1889 to 1891 he undertook training in mathematics, chemistry, physics, anatomy and zoology in Heidelberg, Glasgow, München and Straßburg. He then worked until 1894 as an assistant to Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig in the Physiologisches Institut in Leipzig. There in 1892 he completed his doctoral studies (Promotion). Subsequently, from 1894 Frank worked as an assistant in Carl von Voit's Physiological Institute in München where he studied cardiac function using approaches derived from earlier thermodynamic analyses of skeletal muscle contraction. His work on the behaviour of heart muscle was the topic of his post doctoral work. In 1902 he became an Extraordinary Professor and from 1905 to 1908 he undertook further work on this topic before becoming a full professor (Ordinariat). Then he returned to München to continue this work. Carl J. Wiggers visited Frank’s laboratory in 1912 and found Frank a ‘‘brilliant analyst, a skillful systematist, a talented mathematician, and a creative thinker...’’, but secretive and difficult to work with. Wiggers returned to the US in the fall of 1912 having ‘smuggled’ copies of some of Frank’s equipment out with him, despite this Wiggers and Frank seem to have maintained cordial relations subsequently. Frank appears to have been a demanding teacher and Richard Bing, an Editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, who studied with Frank, recalled him as '...a holy terror, hating mediocrity, and many a student bit the dust in the examination in Physiology'. Frank continued to work in München until his enforced retirement in 1934 due to his opposition to the Nazi regime. Achievements Frank's initial research was related to fat absorption. But in his postdoctoral work (Habilitationsschrift) Frank investigated the isometric and isotonic contractile behaviour of the heart and it is this work that he is best known for. Frank's work on this topic preceded that of Ernest Starling, but both are usually credited with providing the foundations of what is termed the Frank–Starling law of the heart. This law states that "Within physiological limits, the force of contraction is directly proportional to the initial length of the muscle fiber". Frank also undertook important work into the physiological basis of the arterial pulse waveform and may have coined the term essential hypertension in 1911. His work on the Windkessel extended the original ideas of Stephen Hales and provided a sound mathematical framework for this approach. Frank also published on waves in the arterial system but his attempts to produce a theory that incorporated waves and the Windkessel are not considered to have been successful. Frank also did work on the oscillatory characteristics of the auditory apparatus of the ear and the thermodynamics of muscle. He also worked extensively on developing accurate methods to measure blood pressure and other physiological phenomena (e.g. Frank's capsule (Frank-Kapsel), optical Spiegelsphygmograph). Selected Published Work *Zur Dynamik des Herzmuskels, Z Biol 32 (1895) 370 *Die Grundform des arteriellen Pulses, Z Biol 37 (1899) 483-526 (a translation is given by Sagawa K, Lie RK, Schaefer J. J Mol Cell Cardiol 1990; 22: 253-277) *Kritik der elastischen Manometer, 1903 *Die Registrierung des Pulses durch einen Spiegelsphygmographen, Münchn Med Wschr 42 (1903) 1809–1810 *Die Elastizitat der Blutgefasse. Zeitschrift fur Biologie, 1920; 71: 255-272. *Die Theorie der Pulswellen. Zeitschrift fur Biologie, 1926; 85: 91-130. *Schatzung des Schlagvolumens des menschlichen Herzens auf Grund der Wellen und Windkesseltheorie. Zeitschrift fur Biologie 1930; 90: 405-409. Publications about Otto Frank *Otto Frank (Physiologe) Wikipedia (in German) *Wilhelm Katner: Frank, Otto. In: Histor. Komm. b. d. Bayer. Akad. d. Wiss. (Hrsg.), Neue Deutsche Biographie, 5. Bd., Berlin 1961, S. 335–336 *I. Fischer (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre. Berlin 1932, Bd. 1, S. 438 *Kürschners Dtsch. Gelehrtenkalender 6 (1940/41) 378 *A. P. Fishman, D. W. Richards (eds.): Circulation of the blood. New York 1964, pp. 110–113 *A. Hahn: Nekrolog. Jahrb. d. bayer. Akad d. Wiss. 1944–1948, S. 202–205 *K. E. Rothschuh: Geschichte der Physiologie. Berlin 1953, S. 184–186 *K. Wezler: Otto Frank. Z Biol 1950; 103: 92–122 *W. Blasius, J. Boylan, K. Kramer (Hrsg.): Begründer der experimentellen Physiologie. München 1971 *H.G. Zimmer: Otto Frank and the fascination of high-tech cardiac physiology. Clin Cardiol 2004; 27: 665-666 *H.G. Zimmer. Who Discovered the Frank-Starling Mechanism? News Physiol Sci 2002; 17: 181-84. *Carlton B Chapman & Eugene Wasserman. Translators note in relation to a Special Article 'On the Dynamics of Cardiac Muscle' by Otto Frank. American Heart Journal 1959; 58: 282-317. References External links *Short biography and links on digitized sources in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science German physiologists 1865 births 1944 deaths People from Groß-Umstadt "