Basil Rifkind

Pepsinogen BASIL

Antioxidant Activity of Basil

INTRODUCTION The commercial development of plants as sources of antioxidants to enhance health and food preservation is of current interest (Rice-Evans et al. 1997). Epidemiological studies have suggested positive associations between the consumption of phenolic-rich foods or beverages and the prevention of diseases (Scalbert and Williamson 2000). These effects have been attributed to antioxida...

Remembering Basil Gordon , 1931 – 2012

B asil Gordon, who made major research contributions to number theory, combinatorics, and algebra and who enhanced our understanding of Ramanujan’s remarkable identities, passed away on January 12, 2012, at the age of eighty. Gordon, who was a professor of mathematics at UCLA, was an outstanding teacher at all levels. His legacy will continue, owing to the impact of his fundamental work and to ...

Ernest Basil Verney, 1894-1967.

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Basil Hetzel: vanquishing iodine deficiency disorders.

www.thelancet.com Vol 381 March 2, 2013 717 The story of Basil Hetzel’s fi ght against iodine defi ciency begins in 1964, in the highland villages of Papua New Guinea. A medical scientist with an interest in thyroid disorders, Hetzel had been invited by the country’s Public Health Department to investigate the goitre and cretinism that was prevalent in the mountain communities. Witnessing the s...