Arthur Edward James Barker 1850-1916.

James Franklin Crow (1916–2012)

years, like Lake Vostok, underneath the eponymous Russian research station at 77 degrees South. One of the largest lakes on our planet, Lake Vostok is comparable in volume to Lake Ontario. Back in 1998, a research team drilled around three kilometres deep into the ice shield stopping only a few hundred metres above the lake surface. The lower parts of the ice core, believed to consist of frozen...

Edward James Sheppard

He married, in 1870, Miss S. D. Jones, and took a farm near ?Kingsteignton, Devonshire. He entered at the Bristol Medical School when he was over thirty vears of age. He then went to Edinburgh and got Qualified in 1884. Besides his work as a general practitioner, he was Public Vaccinator for the Clifton District, and he attended gratuitously, for more than twenty-five years, the inmates of St. ...

James Arthur Lecture on the Evolution of the Human Brain

King Edward VII Hall of Residence--a link with the medical school since 1916.

King Edward VII ("KE") had been synonymous with the medical school and its associated hall of residence at Sepoy Lines since the 1910s. After the school became the Medical Faculty, the illustrious name remained with the Hall, which was rebuilt in 1957. For almost 90 years, KE has kept alive the rich history and traditions of a bygone era that embodied the passion and pride of both Singapore and...

James F. Crow (1916–2012) A Remarkable Geneticist, a Remarkable Man

JAMES F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics, died peacefully in his sleep of congestive heart failure in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 4, 2012, 2 weeks before his 96th birthday. A leading figure in 20th century genetics whose career spanned 72 years, Crow was renowned as teacher, mentor, colleague, research scientist, textbook author, academic administrator, scientific leader, genetics histo...