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Perhaps "Elohandro" (spelled phonetically) is "Engel"? Was he the
Jim Croce lookalike? He was a young guy from South America, somewhere. I
remember him because he helped us move, and Jim Croce (the singer whose song
"Time In a Bottle" is quite famous) had just been killed in a plane
crash.
Do you know where Ycas was from?
Judith
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:00
PM
Subject: Re: [ROSEN] Fundamentals of
measurement and representation....
Judith wrote: My father
used to tell a story about a colleague, named Ycas (pronounced
"Ee-chas")(whose first name I can't remember for sure, but it may have been
"Elohandro"?)
Martynas Ycas was a frequent visitor and
colleague especially during the time of the Center for Theoretical Biology at
Buffalo. He wrote one of the first books on the genetic code, before it was
deciphered. The physicist George Gamov and Ycas were fascinated by the problem
of the code and tried to solve it by theoretical reasoning that is still of
interest because of the quality of their thinking even though they never
discovered the actual code. That took a lot of experiments.
Now,
who is Elohandro? The name sounds familiar, but I can't come up with a
face.
Howard
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