James Flack Norris Award to Renée Cole, Juliette Lantz, and Suzanne Ruder

Biochemist James Spudich wins Lasker Award

Stanford biochemist James Spudich, PhD, has been flying small planes as a hobby since 1975. At his Pacific Ocean vacation home there’s a private runway within walking distance from his cottage. But what’s put him in the pilot seat with respect to his professional career is his consistent ability to develop evermore-precise ways of measuring molecular movements. Spudich, the Douglass M. and Nola...

Redux: the James Shields Memorial Award for Twin Research.

Twin Research Volume 4 Number 6 pp. 484–485 After a hiatus of some 15 years, and following on a suggestion from Nick Martin to publicly reconstruct the roots of modern twin research strategies for a contemporary audience, the James Shields Memorial Award for Twin Research was happily restored. The fact that our conversation took place during a meeting — “The Future of Behavioural Genetics in a ...

Bruno Rossi and Norris

HE purpose of the experiment described in the present paper was to determine the disintegration curve of mesotrons at rest. The experiment was performed by investigating the delayed emission of the disintegration electrons, which takes place after the absorption of mesotrons by matter. Experiments more or less closely related to the present one have been reported previously by Montgomery, Ramse...

Competency to be executed and forced medication: Singleton v. Norris.

Singleton v. Norris is a decision by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals stating that forced psychotropic medication can be continued after the date of execution is set if the medication had been given previously to prevent the inmate from being dangerous in the prison setting under a Harper-type review. The defendant had argued that after the date of execution was set, it was no longer in his ...

Neurologists come in for over-servicing flack.