Founders of the RAS: Francis Baily

The Founders of Neurology

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

Baily-borel Compactification

Let G = Sp2g be the symplectic group (Chevalley group scheme over Z). Let K be a maximal compact subgroup of G = G(R). The symmetric space G(R)/K is commonly referred to as the Siegel upper half plane, we denote it by hg. It is common to realise hg = {A ∈ Mat g(C) | tA = A,=(A) > 0}. Thus it is a complex analytic space. Let Γ = G(Z) (respectively a congruence subgroup of). Then it is well known...

The founders of child neurology

STEPHEN ASHWAL (ed.), Thefounders of child neurology, Norman Neurosciences Series 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing in association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990, pp. xii, 935, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-26-9). Ashwal has undertaken the mammoth task of bringing together biographical sketches, written by over 100 medical specialists, of 124 individuals who have made important contributio...

Mr. Ralph Arthur John Baily

Presentation of the 2014 Founders' Medal Award.

Mr. President, colleagues and guests. I am honored and proud to present this year’s Southern Society of Clinical Investigation (SSCI) Founders’Medal to my longtime colleague and friend Monica Farley (Figure 1). For those in the audience who are having a feeling of déjà vu, I can reassure you that the feeling is correct in that I stood here last year and presented the Founders’ Medal to Dr. Jess...