Gérald Thomas (1940-2005)

The 2005 Thomas Willis Lecture: stroke and vascular cognitive impairment: a transdisciplinary, translational and transactional approach.

Advances in stroke are occurring at an unprecedented pace, but often in disciplinary isolation and without optimal mechanisms for systematically translating, integrating and applying the findings. Knowledge accrues in pieces, but is understood in patterns. To optimize knowledge acquisition and application, infrastructures and systems need to be set up along with appealing incentives. The approa...

Catherine DeAngelis (1940? )

In the late-twentieth century in the United States, Catherine DeAngelis was a pediatric physician, researcher, and editor of multiple medical journals. During her time with the Journal of the American Medical Association [2], DeAngelis became the journal?s first female editor. At Johns Hopkins University [3] in Baltimore, Maryland, she studied how physician-nurse interactions affected patient c...

Campaigning Notes, 1940-45

Together with other Bristolians, most of whom are now out of uniform, I have been asked to record a few of my personal experiences while in the Army. Where should one begin ? The events of the last few years seem already far away. Like so many, I joined the forces and saw something of the world. Never have so many travelled so much and often, apparently, so much at random. Events crowd each oth...

Dev103630 1940..1949

During vertebrate development, centrally projecting sensory axons of the dorsal root ganglia neurons first reach the embryonic spinal cord at the dorsolateral margin. Instead of immediately projecting into the grey matter, they bifurcate and extend rostrally and caudally to establish the longitudinal dorsal funiculus during a stereotyped waiting period of approximately 48 h. Collateral fibres t...

René J. Dubos, 1940