Deshamanya Dr S Ramachandran DSc Honoris Causa, MD, FRCP

Jan Brod, MD, DSc (Prague), FRCP

He qualified in medicine from Charles University, Prague, in 1937, after which he worked in hospitals in Prague and Vienna. After the German occupation of his country he held a French Government research fellowship until the invasion of France, when he joined the Free Czech Army and served in first aid stations. After the collapse of France he joined a Czech field ambulance in Britain, and duri...

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972), MA,MD,DSc,FRCP,FRS.

‘Doctor Honoris Causa’ Koen Vanmechelen

received an honorary doctorate from the University of Has-selt. This years' theme was 'Art meets science'. The UHasselt also bestowed the title of 'Doctor Honoris Causa' to two other international artists: Panamarenko (Belgium) and Michael Rowe (United Kingdom). He started his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP) in the late '90s. By crossbreeding chickens from all over the planet he tries to cre...

Dr Henry Rollin MD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Hon), FRCP

Henry Rollin, who died recently at the age of 102, was a medical polymath from a vanished age when psychiatrists had the time and opportunity to develop their skills by way of a wider variety of experience than is possible today. From 1948 until 1975, he was the Deputy Superintendent of Horton Hospital, Epsom, one of the largest mental hospitals in the country. Although he had himself been invo...

Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919-1996).