JZ Young 1907 – 1997

JZ Young 1907 –  1997

JZ Young died on 4th July. Although 90 in March, and recently in poor health, he was still working. With long-time collaborators, he was preparing two books and two papers for publication. Three of these are on cephalopod brains and biology, the fourth on the autonomic nervous system of dogfish, an early interest to which he returned after his retirement in 1974. John Young (known as JZ to coll...

Lindsay m. Black, 1907 to 1997.

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1 Genetics of Neurodegenerative and Metabolic Diseases Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy 2 Clinic of Central and Peripheral Degenerative Neuropathies Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy 3 Clinical Neurophysiology Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, via Celoria 1...

Mary Shaw Shorb (1907-1990)

McKean, also served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Ernest Shaw was born in 1873 in Michigan and made his living as an abstractor, that is, one who describes parcels of property for plot maps. Mary McKean was born in 1871 in Minnesota and made her living as a school teacher. They met in North Dakota and were married in Wahpeton in 1904. Mary Shaw was the second of their five ch...

Dr. Robert Heller (1907-1980)

It is with deep regret that we record the death on 20 March 1980 of Dr. Robert Heller, for many years a most valued friend and associate of the Wellcome Institute. Robert Heller was a native of Vienna forced to flee Austria after a period of imprisonment by the Nazis. His basic medical education had been completed in Austria and was followed by a period of physiological research in Italy. Retur...