Penny-farthing the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. Its popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport. Eugène Meyer of Paris, France is now regarded as the father of the high bicycle by the International Cycling History Conference in place of James Starley. Meyer patented a wire-spoke tension wheel with individually adjustable spokes in 1869. They were called "spider" wheels in Britain when introduced there. Meyer produced a classic high bicycle design during the 1880s. James Starley in Coventry added the tangent spokes and the mounting step to his famous bicycle
Urs A. Meyer to the molecular mechanism by which drugs activate transcription factors such as nuclear receptors and thereby regulate the expression of drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters. Urs A. Meyer Urs Albert Meyer is a Swiss physician-scientist and clinical pharmacologist. Meyer is professor emeritus of pharmacology. He obtained his M.D. at the University of Zurich in 1967 and worked as assistant professor in clinical pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1974, he became Head of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital of Zurich. From 1983 to 2008, Meyer carried out research and taught as professor of pharmacology at