John Waterlow, CMG, FRS, FRCP, DSc: an appreciation of his work as a physiologist

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972), MA,MD,DSc,FRCP,FRS.

Norman Henry Ashton, CBE, DSC(Lond), FRCP, FRCS, FRCPath, FRCOphth, FRS, KSTJ (1913-2000).

L ast year began with the loss of a very dear friend and colleague who had been an internationally renowned leader in ophthalmic pathology, Professor Norman H. Ashton of London (England). Of humble origins, young Norman left school at age 16 years to begin working as a laboratory assistant in a West London hospital. Subsequently, the head of the laboratory further encouraged Ashton’s interest i...

Robert C. King: an appreciation of his work.

THE advance of scientific knowledge is a combined early differentiation of the Drosophila egg chamber in product of both the contributions of the individual the 1960s. Through painstaking three-dimensional (3D) scientist and the acceptance and authentication of his reconstructions of serially sectioned egg chambers, they or her work over time by the larger scientific community. deciphered the p...

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...

John Punnett Peters: An Appreciation