George Neville Watson: I

Neville Fogarty

When we transmit data over a noisy channel (e.g., satellite) to a receiver, we run the risk of our data becoming corrupted. Fixing the channel is not typically an option, so instead we must make our data noise-proof. A naive method of doing this is simply sending the same data multiple times. However, the benefit of the redundancy created may be offset by the cost of sending a lengthy message m...

[George Berkeley (1685-1753) (I)].

George Rosen as I knew him.

T was a gray Baltimore morning in April 1942 when I first met George Rosen in the Johns Hopkins Institute. We 'clicked' immediately. Being both devotees of medical history we talked for hours almost exclusively about our adored subject; strangely enough neither about our careers (as it behooves colleagues) nor about world politics, though at that moment it breathed heavily down all our necks. I...

Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Opportunity

Sir.?The aims of your paper in regard to the public health, as set out in your New Year's issue, are excellent. And as everyone seems to be waking up at last to the fact that the housing question overshadows every other question in domestic politics, perhaps something will be accomplished. Questions of housing and health must not, however, be allowed to become the playthings of politics. Every ...

Neville Hudson: Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia

The long history of both zoological and palaeontological research on the bivalves has revealed a startling degree of convergence and parallel evolution which has hampered the interpretation of their evolutionary history. However new discoveries and developments make it timely for a new concerted effort to integrate zoological and palaeontological techniques to improve comprehension of the evolu...