David Lean: A Biography

Biography of David Tilman

D avid Tilman describes himself as both a theoretical and an experimental ecologist. Currently the McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota (St. Paul), Tilman has spent his career developing theories of biodiversity and species composition that he has tested in carefully designed and controlled experiments. His work on resource competition in b...

Walter Reed. A biography

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

Harvey Cushing, A Biography

The physician of today may be somewhat bewildered in the face of the vast current literature on penicillin and the conflicting views on methods of administration, dosages, and indications. Dr. Fleming and his 28 associates have now provided a most authoritative and yet practical guide-book concerning the place of this agent in medicine. No one will deny that much remains to be learned of penici...

The Nicolai case. A biography

xix). Despite a tendency to interpretative ad hoc-ism, it does bring together the important monographic work (e.g. Bynum, Searle, Stocking, Young) that has been done, and in some instances offers perceptive independent readings of particular figures. One might quarrel with the decision to focus on the natural sciences in isolation from the social (and the failure adequately to appreciate the wa...

Sir Christopher Wren. A biography