C.I.I.M.S. spotlights those professionals in the health sciences who have advanced their field, while holding to the highest academic standards. Regardless of the controversy typically surrounding these individuals they have maintained their focus on verifiable groundbreaking results which have, or could have, a profound impact on all of us.
The following individuals have been selected by CIIMS as those in the vanguard for their field:
Dr. Otto Warburg:Over the course of approximately 60 years of research, German physician, biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner Otto Warburg (1883-1970) uncovered the prime cause of cancer and how cancer can be prevented. However, through an unfortunate combination of circumstances, his discoveries remained unacknowledged by the larger cancer research community and were never utilized by succeeding generations of cancer researchers. The result was that his work, though entirely valid, has remained little known and has not been applied to save the millions of lives it otherwise could have. (Excerpts taken from The Hidden Story of Cancer written by Prof. Brian S. Peskin and Dr. Amid Habib)
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Westin A. Price, D.D.S.:
Circling the globe in the 1920's and '30's, Dr. Price found a constant pattern among "primitive" populations, whether isolated Irish fishermen, tribal Africans, Pacific Islanders, Eskimos, American Indians or Australian Aborigines. Those groups who followed their traditional nature-based diets enjoyed good health and vigor, while those that turned to the "civilized" diet of processed, sugar-laden foods quickly developed a variety of ills, including misshapen bones and teeth, disease, mental degeneration and increased crime - and the situation worsened with each generation. Dr. Price's ground-breaking work, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" remains an unequaled source of nutritional truths that are only now gaining general understanding. (Excerpts taken from back cover of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, written by Robert M. Cathcart, M.D.)
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Prof. Brian S. Peskin, B.S.E.E., M.I.T.:
No one else living today is more capable than Professor Brian Peskin of developing practical health-related solutions based on the world’s leading medical and nutritional science. “Science—Not Opinion” is Brian’s trademark. He possesses the unique ability to synthesize highly technical material and present it in a reader-friendly fashion. Brian’s innovative and controversial views put him at the forefront of the field of preventive medicine and his unique analysis of the literature will enable millions to do what is best for their health and develop the maximum shield against contracting cancer as well as other major diseases and health problems.
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Adolph Fick, M.D.:
(1829-1901)
German physiologist, professor at Zürich and Würzburg. A law of diffusion in liquids was named after him, when he discovered that the mass of solute diffusing through unit area per second is proportional to the concentration gradient.Read more about Adolph Fick by clicking here
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Prof. Richard Feyman:
(1918-88)
Physicist, born in Far Rockaway, New York, USA. He worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton (1941-2) and Los Alamos (1942-5), while continuing to pursue his interest in quantum electrodynamics. Accepting Bethe's offer to join Cornell University (1945-50), he developed pictorial representations of space-time behavioural probabilities of particle interactions, now known as Feynman diagrams. He moved to the California Institute of Technology (1951-88), where he continued to apply his quantum electrodynamic theories to the ‘superfluidity’ of liquid helium. With colleague Gell-Mann, he developed the Conserved Vector Current hypothesis of weak subatomic particle interactions (1958). He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics with Schwinger and Tomonaga for fundamental developments in quantum electrodynamics. He applied his dynamism, curiosity, and intuition to linguistics, music, art, and teaching, and was an outspoken critic of NASA's laxity in constructing the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger. His free-spirited personality engaged a wide public with his memoir, Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman (1984).Read more about Prof. Richard Feyman by clicking here
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Louis Pasteur:
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease", is one of the most important in medical history. His work became the foundation for the science of microbiology, and a cornerstone of modern medicine.
Pasteur's phenomenal contributions to microbiology and medicine can be summarized as follows. First, he championed changes in hospital practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes. Second, he discovered that weakened forms of a microbe could be used as an immunization against more virulent forms of the microbe. Third, Pasteur found that rabies was transmitted by agents so small they could not be seen under a microscope, thus revealing the world of viruses. As a result he developed techniques to vaccinate dogs against rabies, and to treat humans bitten by rabid dogs. And fourth, Pasteur developed "pasteurization", a process by which harmful microbes in perishable food products are destroyed using heat, without destroying the food.Read more about Louis Pasteur by clicking here