From Personal Ads to Cloning Labs: More Science Cartoons from Sidney Harris (Harris, Sidney)

Sidney garfield-a personal recollection.

Testimony of Sidney G

My name is Sidney Winter. I am the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where I spent 15 years in the Management Department. I am trained as an economist, and I previously was a tenured faculty member in two economics departments, those of Yale University (13 years) and the University of Michigan (8). One of my central r...

Sidney Winter Lecture Series

Available online 19 August 2010

A tribute to Dr Sidney Dyke.

Sidney Campbell Dyke, founder of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and for many years a member of the Advisory Board of this Journal, died on 3 March. He was 88. Obituary notices have already been published in the British Medical Journal and Lancet (22 March). These have recorded Dyke's distinguished scholastic career, his wide range of scientific interests, his motives in founding the A...

The posterior pituitary, from Geoffrey Harris to our present understanding

Geoffrey Harris pioneered our understanding of the posterior pituitary, mainly with experiments that involved the electrical stimulation of the supraoptico-hypophysial tract. In the present essay, we explain how his observations included clues to the pulsatile nature of the oxytocin signal – clues that were followed up by subsequent workers, including his students and their students. These stud...