In Memoriam: William Simpson

In memoriam: William A. Craig.

Ursula Theuretzbacher, Paul G. Ambrose, Alasdair P. MacGowan, David R. Andes, Fritz Sörgel, Hartmut Derendorf, Johan W. Mouton, George L. Drusano, Paul M. Tulkens, Michael N. Dudley, Otto Cars, Roger L. Nation Center for Anti-Infective Agents, Vienna, Austria; Institute for Clinical Pharmacodynamics, Latham, New York, USA; Bristol Centre for Antimicrobial Research and Evaluation, Department of ...

In Memoriam: Martin William Ribarsky

In Memoriam William Allan Light (1950-2002)

William Allan Light, known to his friends as ‘‘Will,’’ died on Sunday, December 8, 2002. He was at his home, Gartree House, Illston-on-the-Hill, near Leicester in England, when he was felled by a heart attack. He was 52 years old. Will is survived by his wife, the former Anita Edwards, by his mother, Mrs. Mary Light of Lancaster, and by a sister, Helen Johnson. At the time of death, Will was an...

In Memoriam William Martin Gelbart (1945-2015).

WILLIAMMartin Gelbart died Tuesday morning, August 11, 2015, after a valiantfightwith cancer. Bill was born September 11, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1971, working in the laboratory of Alan Fox. He did postdoctoral workwith Ed Lewis at California Institute of Techn...

William John Ritchie Simpson (1855-1931): public health and tropical medicine.

Simpson's long working life covered a wide field. The pioneering nature of his work in public health and tropical hygiene involved a number of appointments at home and abroad. He worked in Aberdeen as Medical Officer of Health, in India as Health Officer for Calcutta, and in London he taught as Professor of Hygiene at King's College, becoming one of the founders of the London School of Hygiene ...