Dr P G Bakker

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...

Dr. A. M. G. Campbell

Dr R P Warin

Obituary British dermatology and the Bristol medical community suffered a grievous loss on 1.7.92 when Bob and Anne warm vvere both killed in a car crash near Salisbury, while they were travelling to the Bournemouth Meeting of the British and he and Anne had been such central figures in the Association for so many years that it was difficult to believe he Meeting could continue in their absence...

De Bakker-Zucker processes revisited

The sets of compact and of closed subsets of a metric space endowed with the Hausdorr metric are studied. Both give rise to a functor on the category of 1-bounded metric spaces and nonexpansive functions. It is shown that the former functor has a terminal coalgebra and that the latter does not.

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...