Fred Sanger: A memorial tribute

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

The first sequence. Fred Sanger and insulin.

FRED Sanger is an amazingly modest man, and his into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology), took me on as a research student. Vernon had just shown that sickleown retrospective, written after he retired, a delightful prefatory chapter for the Annual Reviews of cell hemoglobin differed from normal hemoglobin by a single amino acid substitution, the first characterizaBiochemistry, is called “Seque...

Would Fred Sanger Get Funded Today?

Fred Sanger developed technologies that won him two Nobel Prizes and revolutionized biological research. Yet, in spite of this record, the question has been raised as to whether, in the current scientific climate, he might be unsuccessful in obtaining a grant because of a productivity that would be viewed as too limited. In imagining how a National Institutes of Health study section today might...

Generating functions of Legendre polynomials: A tribute to Fred Brafman

In 1951, F. Brafman derived several “unusual” generating functions of classical orthogonal polynomials, in particular, of Legendre polynomials Pn(x). His result was a consequence of Bailey’s identity for a special case of Appell’s hypergeometric function of the fourth type. In this paper, we present a generalization of Bailey’s identity and its implication to generating functions of Legendre po...

Memorial tribute to Dr. Michael Conrad

We lost a dear friend and colleague on December 28, 2000, when Professor Michael Conrad passed away after a battle with lymphoma. Michael was truly a giant in the field of evolutionary computation, a pioneer who endeavored to push the limits of our knowledge of biological information processing in all its forms. His contributions to evolutionary computation include the first known simulation of...