Charles Edward Marshall 1866-1927

Marshall Nirenberg 1927–2010

of the true giants in the history of science. Marshall Nirenberg, the man who deciphered the genetic code, was taken from us by a rare neuroendocrine cancer. He was 82 years old. I was one of the many scientists who had the good fortune to be trained in Marshall's lab, to be exposed to his brilliance , to be instilled with his values, and to be inspired by his enthusiasm for the discovery of im...

Charles Nicolle (1866-1936).

Dept. of Medicine, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai 400 008 C Nicolle was born in Rouen, France, to a practising physician. He received his medical education in Rouen and completed his graduation from the hospital in Paris. In 1893, he further studied in the Pasteur Institute of Paris, under the direction of Metchnikoff and Roux. In 1902, he was appointed the first director of...

Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)

Charles Benedict Davenport [5] was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. Though he was a accomplished as a statistician and as a scientist, Davenport?s also has a legacy as the scientific leader of the eugenics movement [6] in the US. Eugenics, an attempt ...

Charles H. DePuy (1927-2013).

Edward Charles Dodds (1899-1973)

Edward Charles Dodds [3] researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones [4] on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth century. Though he first worked with hormones [4] such as insulin, Dodds focused on the effects of estrogen [5] in the body and how to replicate those effects with artificial substances. In 1938, along with chemist Robert Robinson, Dodds syn...