David Harker, 1906-1991

The Sir David Cuthbertson Medal Lecture 1991

David Francis Van Zwanenberg, Dm, Dch, Dph (1922–1991)

There he established himself as an administrator as well as a clinician, devoted to his patients and always helpful to colleagues in practice. In 1959, he proceeded to the Doctorate, with a thesis on tuberculin testing in pulmonary tuberculosis, a disease with which he was much concerned, particularly in the then practised use of artificial pneumothorax. He was later appointed, in 1963, Consult...

Dmd053405 1906..1913

Carbinol [4,49-(hydroxymethylene)dibenzonitrile] is the main phase 1 metabolite of letrozole, a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor used for endocrine therapy in postmenopausal breast cancer. We elucidated the contribution of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) isoforms on the glucuronidation of carbinol. Identification of UGT isoforms was performed using a panel of recombinant human UGT enzymes. Ki...

Pierre Curie, 1859–1906

The year 2006 marked 100 years since the death of Pierre Curie. It is therefore appropriate that we remember his life and his work, which was cut short by his untimely death from an accident on the Pont Neuf, Paris, on April 19, 1906. He had already accomplished much during his life, both before the discovery of radium with Marie Curie, in work co-authored with his brother Jacques on piezoelect...

Christian A. Herter, 1906