ARKADAŞIM MUHAMMET TANCİ (1918-1974)

Abraham Robinson 1918 - 1974

A pilgrim's progress in cancer research, 1918 to 1974: autobiographical essay.

Immediately after graduation in biology (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1918) I joined the scientific staff of the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), New York, as assistant to Dr. James B. Murphy. The armistice of World War I was declared toward the end of that year, and the normal research activity of the Institute was then resumed. At that time. Dr. Murphy w...

Michael Stoker 1918–2013

Michael Stoker Sir Michael Stoker, a pioneer of virology and the cell biology of cancer cells, died on 13 August at the age of 95. Viruses have always been useful tools for probing the workings of cells, and Michael exploited tumor-causing viruses to gain a better understanding of oncogenic mechanisms at the dawn of the molecular biology of animal cells. During a long career, Michael not only m...

Howard Schachman (1918–2016)

Howard Schachman, renowned physical chemist and protein chemist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, extraordinary teacher, and a lifetime fighter for civil liberties, died on August 5 in Oakland California at age 97 from complications of pneumonia. Schachman’s active career spanned fundamental work on virus structure, the development of the analytical ultracentrifuge and its u...

Julian Schwinger ( 1918 - 1994 )

Julian Schwinger’s influence on Twentieth Century science is profound and pervasive. Of course, he is most famous for his renormalization theory of quantum electrodynamics, for which he shared the Nobel Prize with Richard Feynman and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. But although this triumph was undoubtedly his most heroic accomplishment, his legacy lives on chiefly through subtle and elegant work in classi...