David Lee Chandler (1938-1993)

Autobiography of David Chandler.

I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

David Baltimore (1938? )

David Baltimore studied viruses and the immune system in the US during the twentieth century. In 1975, Baltimore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering reverse transcriptase, the enzyme used to transfer information from RNA to DNA. The discovery of reverse transcriptase contradicted the central dogma of biology at the time, which stated that the transfer of inform...

Appreciating David Barker (1938-2013).

title ‘... from sceptic to convert’ [3] . By then, the epidemiological research that David Barker had initiated was maturing from ecological observations to cohorts with primary data collection, improved follow-up rates and better control for confounding, along with an expanding series of rich interdisciplinary investigations. Owing to the fertile ground laid by Professor Barker, we and numerou...

Sir David Bruce lecture 1993. The primary care team.

Introduction It is a great honour to be asked to give this year's David Bruce lecture and to have the opportunity of meeting so many friends friends I have come to know during the time I have been involved with the Defence Medical Services. It was exactly 15 years ago this Sunday that I first made the acquaintance of doctors working in the Armed Forces and it was in this building John Lawson, A...

Semiotics by Daniel Chandler Adapted