James Lockhart (1933-2014)

George Stell (1933-2014).

Max L. Birnstiel (1933–2014)

Max L. Birnstiel When I first met Max in Zurich in the fall of 1974, ‘‘Switzerland’’ seemed to be written all over him. I had just arrived from the United States, and his reserved politeness, his aversion to jokes, and his habit of neither wasting nor mincing his words all fitted the cliché of the Swiss German. My impression was reinforced when he told me that his paternal ancestors had been gu...

Max Birnstiel 1933-2014: Gene pioneer.

Max Birnstiel, who died in November, was a pioneer of molecular biology and a creator of European scientific institutions. Born in Brazil in 1933, his family moved back to their native Switzerland when he was 5 years old, and he completed his education there. When he asked his teachers how he should best train to be a biologist, the counterintuitive answer was that he should study biophysical c...

Canynge Hall 1933-1969

ust over thirty-five years ago the newly formed Univer-Department of Preventive Medicine was opened at anynge Hall, a former hotel (Plate V), by the then 'hister of Health, Sir Hilton Young. He described the ?Ccasion as the celebration of a marriage of the City Bristol with the fair nymph of knowledge, and Dr. anley Badock, in proposing the vote of thanks, hoped at it would be a lasting and hap...

Michael Heidelberger, 1933