Lesley Byrd Simpson (1891-1984)

Report of the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital for the Quarter Ending 30th April 1891

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, fi rst in Experimental Psychology and then in the Department of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, before being enticed back to Australia in 2005. Toge...

Otto Mangold (1891-1962)

Otto Mangold [5] was an early-twentieth-century embryologist who specialized in the development of amphibian embryos. A major emphasis of his research was refining the concept of the organizer [6], now referred to as embryonic induction [7]. He was born on 4 November 1891 in Auenstein, Germany, and came from what Viktor Hamburger [8], a colleague and personal acquaintance, described as ?peasant...

Tips & tricks : Consider a fellowship Lesley

New hires, old problems 8 Good eats in Washington, DC 2 Inside this issue: President's message Amanda Roberts Based upon the overwhelming desire of NMRTers to write for publication, we decided to try something different in this year's print edition of Footnotes. Normally, you might find various NMRT announcements in the May issue, but this year we decided to add more thought-provoking articles,...

Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1891?1970)

Alfred Henry Sturtevant studied heredity in fruit flies in the US throughout the twentieth century. From 1910 to 1928, Sturtevant worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan?s research lab in New York City, New York. Sturtevant, Morgan, and other researchers established that chromosomes play a role in the inheritance of traits. In 1913, as an undergraduate, Sturtevant created one of the earliest genetic maps ...