Alfred Gilman

Alfred Goodman Gilman (1941–2015)

On December 23, 2015, Alfred Goodman Gilman died peacefully at home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Though Al was one of the great scientific minds of the past 50 years and is best known for his discovery of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins), anyone who trained or worked closely with Al knew him as much more than that. His greatness extended equally to scie...

Francis Gilman Blake 1887-1952

The Francis Gilman Blake Award

The terms of the award state that it will be given annually to the member of the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine designated by the graduating class as the most outstanding teacher of the medical sciences. The first recipient is Dr. Gerald Klatskin, Associate Professor of Medicine, who was trained by Dr. Blake and, since the war, had been one of his associates in the Department...

Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Alfred Goldberg

system, where non-sexualised images, e.g. from clothes ads or even from nudist beaches get the green light, erotic posing counts as amber, and material focusing on genitals or actual acts of child abuse gets the red light. “We train the patient to move only in the green area,” Ahlers told the paper. “Amber means: Caution! Potential danger for children and for myself! Risky behaviour on the verg...