Sommer, Robert

H.S. Sommers, Jr., Macrowave-Based Photoconductive Detector Robert Sehr and Rainer Zuleeg, Imaging and Display... 

Consider the behavioral phenomena of maintaining personal space. Psychologist Robert Sommer at the University of California at Davis and others have shown that people have a semiconscious or unconscious sense of the space about them and get uncomfortable if others move into that space. People space themselves a certain distance apart for conversation, for instance. If one approaches, the other backs off. This behavior is usually completely unconscious, automatized, not requiring conscious attention. The body just maintains the proper distance without bothering to inform consciousness about it. The cultural hypnotist has, in effect, suggested, Normal people stay feet apart (unless the other is an intimate friend or loved one and the situation is defined as an embrace). You want to be normal. ... 

The second chapter, by Robert J. P. Corriu, Christian Guerin, and Joel J. E. Moreau, constitutes a monumental review of stereochemistry at silicon. This subject was last discussed comprehensively in a pioneering book by L. H. Sommer in 1965, with a brief 1973 update. In the present chapter the authors bring the literature up to date, discussing silicon stereochemistry in all of its aspects, especially with a view to reaction mechanism, in which area they have made a number of original contributions. This chapter will no doubt become required (and welcome) reading for anyone involved in any way with silicon stereochemistry. 

Curtis Marcott, Robert G. Laughlin, Andre J. Sommer, and J. E. Katon ... 

Patterson R, Greenberger PA, Lee TM, Liotta JL, O Neill EA, Roberts M, Sommers H. Prolonged evaluation of patients with corticosteroid-dependent asthma stage of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1987 80 663-668. 

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