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seem so extraordi- narily sensitive when it comes to touch? Children up to three years old have a total of 80 specialized sensory receptors called Meissner's corpuscles per square millimeter of skin, as opposed to 20 in a young adult, and 4 in old age (Montagu, p. 7). That's why babies are so over- wh

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we do?" Babies do indeed feel things more intensely than adults. This is caused by an abundance of special touch-sensing organs in the skin called Meissner's cor- puscles, which are five times more prevalent in children three years old and younger than they are in adults. Babies have 80 Meissner's corpu

. Lesser, T. Valyi-Nagy, S. M. Altschuler, and N. W. Fraser, J. Gen. Virol. 75:2379-2386. 1994). Peri

lia (each containing an average of 40 neurons) located between the external longitu- dinal and circular muscle coats of the gastrointestinal tract. Meissner's submucous plexus is found just below the gut mu- cosa. Compared with those of the myenteric plexus, the ganglia of the submucous plexus are smalle

s Nobel address, "For me the discovery of asymptotic freedom was totally unexpected. Like an atheist who has just received a message from a burning bush, I became an immediate true believer! Sidney Coleman had assigned his own graduate student David Politzer to do a similar calculation, and his ind

an experiment in 1933 by Walther Meissner and colleagues, explained by theorists Fritz and Heinz London two years later, which goes by the name the Meissner effect. As Faraday and Maxwell discovered sixty years earlier, electric charges respond in different ways to magnetic and electric fields. In par-