Dragotin Cvetko 1911 - 1993

Denis Parsons Burkitt ( 1911 - 1993 )

At the beginning of our careers, each of us has the dream of someday making a discovery that will change the way our respective disciplines regard something we now regard as fact. Denis Parsons Burkitt was able to change the course of our thinking twice in his career. More remarkably, the two discov eries were, to the casual observer, in widely different fields of study, i.e., the elucidation o...

Denis Parsons Burkitt - 28 February 1911--23 March 1993.

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005)

The editorial board lost a real soul mate when Maclyn McCarty passed away on January 2nd at age 93. While attending the theater with friends, one of the many activities that he enjoyed, he collapsed. “Dr. Mac” was revered worldwide for his remarkable experiments that led to the identification of DNA as the genetic material. This totally unanticipated discovery, and the revolutionary 1944 paper ...

Simon Flexner, 1911

Francis Galton (1822-1911)

Sir Francis Galton [5] was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of statistics, experimental psychology and biometry. In the history of biology, Galton is widely regarded as the originator of the early twentieth century eugenics movement [6]. Galton published influential writings on nature versus nurturein human pers...