Dr. Guy Morgan Hicks, Jr. (1926–2017)

Portrait of Dr Michael G. Hanna, Jr

W hile a PhD candidate, doing my thesis at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biology Division under Dr. Charles Congdon, my introduction to the immune response was studying graft vs. host (GVH) disease as a consequence of bone marrow transplantation in mice. The sequalae of GVH was impressive, and demonstrated the potential of negative clinical consequences of the immune system. The idea of ha...

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born into the closed society of segregated Georgia, a grandson of sharecroppers not far removed from America's original sin of slavery. This year, he is being honored a day before Barack Obama will place his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible and take the oath of office as the nation's first black president. "The arc of history is long," King reminded us, "but ...

Dr. Howard Jones, Jr. (1910-2015): In Memoriam

Dr. Howard as we knew him, along with his wife Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, were directors of the IVF team that helped establish the first America's " test-tube " baby who was born December, 1981, transforming reproductive medical science and propelling the field from a dream to reality. Their innovations have been the basis of an estimated over 6 million births worldwide through IVF. The impac...

The chloroform still of Dr. Samuel Guthrie, Jr.

Recollections of Charlie: Dr. Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (1943-2003)

In Memoriam " …one should always attempt to construct an internal image of the universe of knowledge, and then ask if a given publication can, in any significant way, modify that image "-I used to comment that it often seemed as though Charlie already knew the answers to the various questions being asked in his lab; it simply was our responsibility to devise the experiments that would provide t...