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Margaret H. Peaslee [click here to return to my home page]

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As an extension of my interest in biology and encouraged by my ethnic background, I began investigating the early scientific accomplishments made in the Czech Lands of Bohemia and Moravia.  Also included here are recent significant programs and events.

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Peaslee, Margaret Heřmánek and Vítězslav Orel.  The Evolutionary Ideas of F. M. (Ladimír) Klácel, Teacher of Gregor Mendel.  Published in Biomedical Papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacký, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2007, 151(1):151-156.  To read a copy of this paper in .pdf format, click here.

 

 

The Historical Network in Scientific Discovery:  paper presented at the 2007 Conference of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) held at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, June 8 - 10, 2007.

 

Historical marker.jpg (236698 bytes) The Pittsburgh Agreement: dedication of a historical marker, May 31, 2001.
menyousm.JPG (100350 bytes) Monuments to Johann Gregor Mendel in the United States of America and the Czech Republic
abbotmartinec.JPG (69350 bytes) The Spirit of Mendel:  Abbot Lukáš Evžen Martinec of the Augustinian Monastery in Brno has a new vision for turning the abbey into a center for genetic discovery.  Read his story at http://www.mendel-museum.org
monchurch.jpg (597208 bytes) Paper presented at the 20th SVU World Congress in Washington, D.C., August 9-13, 2000 "Contributions of the Members of the Augustinian Monastery in Brno, Focusing on F. M. Klácel, Philosopher and Teacher, and J. G. Mendel, Father of Genetics"
klag30sm.JPG (233447 bytes) Monuments to F. M. Klácel in the United States of America and Significant Klácel Sites in the Czech Republic
Paper presented at the SVU 2001 North American Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, August 1-3, 2001 "Božena Němcová Remembered"
wpe9.gif (4747 bytes) Paper presented at the 21st SVU World Congress in Plzen, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2002 "Equal Opportunity in Education and Employment:  Past, Present, and Future in a Free Society, the United States of America."
Svubadge.jpg (56634 bytes) Photographs taken at the 21st SVU World Congress in Plzen
readpic2.JPG (86931 bytes) Information about Eugene Bruce Read (1837-1918) 

 

You can reach me by E-mail:  peaslee@pitt.edu  Czech diacritical marks are visible when these pages are viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Photographs and written material are the property of Margaret Heřmánek Peaslee, unless otherwise noted.  Copyright, 1998-2007, Margaret Heřmánek Peaslee.

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