Dr. C. G. L. Wolf

Dr. G. L. Foss

Dr. George Lush Foss who died on 11th February 1985 at the age of 76 years was not only a highly respected General Practitioner in Bristol but also a pioneer in the early days of Endocrinology and the problems of sub-fertility. Educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge he did his clinical training in Bristol where his father was a general practitioner in St. George. On the very day t...

T L  C S C E G  E P

We exhibit explicit, combinatorially defined graphs satisfying the kth extension axiom: Given any set of k distinct vertices and any partition of it into two pieces, there exists another vertex adjacent to all of the vertices in the first piece and to none in the second. Quisani:1 I’ve been reading about zero-one laws, and many of the results involve extension axioms. In the simple case of grap...

Dr. O. L. Lloyd

Society research appointment at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford after working in the E.M.S. during the War. When he came to Bristol he had already a high reputation as a pathologist, specialising in morbid anatomy. His appointment to the Department of Pathology came at an important time in its postwar development, especially in relation to the teaching hospitals of the Bristol Royal Infirmary...

The inaugurator of transmitted echocardiography: Prof. Dr Wolf-Dieter Keidel.

Usually, the inauguration of clinical echocardiography is attributed to Edler and Hertz who published their first paper in 1954, followed by Japanese authors in 1956. It is less well-known that there was a first description on using ultrasound for investigating the heart by Wolf-Dieter Keidel already a decade earlier (Figure 1). His first investigations were conducted at the Physiologic Institu...

Dr. L. Everard Napier