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Tag: Eric G.L. Bywaters

  • From bedside to bench and beyond: the legacy of Dr. Eric G.L. Bywaters

    Joshua NiforatosGregory RuteckiCleveland, Ohio, United States The historian John Lukacs, a contemporary of pioneering British physician Eric G. L. Bywaters (1910-2003), wrote in his book At the End of an Age that “the history of anything amounts to that thing itself.”1 Lukacs, influenced by physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, as well as Goethe’s Theory…