In Memoriam: Mina Shaughnessy 1924-1978

In memoriam. Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

In memoriam Wolfgang Bargmann (1906--1978).

On June 20, 1978, Wolfgang BARGMANN, Professor emeritus of Kiel University and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy from 1946 to 1974, died at the age of seventy-two from cerebral hemorrhage. His name was well known to anatomists and biologists worldwide, not only for his outstanding accomplishments in the field of neurosecretion but also as the editor of Cell and Tissue Research (formerly Zei...

Bronson Price: 1905-1978. In memoriam.

It is likely that the best-known paper on twins, at least in the English language, is " Primary biases in twin studies ". Although published as a review, it was more nearly a monograph and presented the most thorough discussion, then or now, of the potential effects of intrauterine phenomena on twin differences after birth. The paper called attention to peculiarities of development in twins: la...

In Memoriam: Robert M. Chanock, MD, 1924–2010.

The world of biomedical science lost a revered leader on July 30, 2010, with the death of Robert M. Chanock (Figure 1), age 86, at Copper Ridge residential care center, Sykesville, Maryland, from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. Bob Chanock’s impact on infectious diseases in the last half of the twentieth century was unparalleled. In a 1967 reference to Bob’s first decade at the Na...

In Memoriam: Jean Lindenmann (1924-2015): A Circuitous Interfering Power in Neurology.

Sometimes, the intended consequences of scientific discovery are not the ones that ultimately have the greatest impact on humanity. This is certainly the case of the interferons, which were discovered jointly by Jean Lindenmann and Alick Isaacs in an attempt to elucidate the role of interferons in host innate immune responses against viral infections. Dr Lindenmann, a Swiss virologist who passe...