Alexander Muirhead, F.R.S

Professor Robert McNeill Alexander CBE FRS (1934-2016).

Robert McNeill Alexander, known to friends and colleagues as 'Neill', was a zoologist with an engineer's eye for how animals work. He used mathematical models to show how evolution has produced optimal designs. His skill was to choose appropriate models: realistic enough to contain the essence of a problem and yet simple enough to be tractable. He wrote fluently and easily: 23 books, 280 papers...

Elected FRS 1976

Description of the FRS domain

An FRS helps in the reservation of facilities (such as tutorial rooms, hotel rooms, lecture theaters) and specific equipment. Different organizations such as academic institutions, hotels, hospitals and companies, have different physical facilities and arrangements for their reservation. Most often, users (individuals or organizations) manage their own reservations with an FRS (e.g., add, delet...

A novel FRS Data Acquisition

In the experiments involving the use of in-flight radioactive beams the selectivity and the detection of the rare products are very demanding. Using faster processing and data acquisition (DAQ) is also important and can be crucial for the realization of those experiments that otherwise may require a non realistic beam time. In particular, here we concern with experiments which can be performed ...

Benjamin Moore FRS (1867–1922)

The recent publication of a biography by his grandson reminded me of Benjamin Moore senior’s contributions on social medicine.1 The book is dedicated to “Dr. G.A.J. Pitt (who first suggested the biography) and in memory of my father, Dr. T. Moore (1900-1999).” The author was born in Cambridge and saw active service as an officer in the Royal Ulster Rifles in the Korean War (1950-1953). He gradu...