Lewis Fry Richardson: scientist, visionary and pacifist

Susan Lindquist: Visionary scientist and peerless mentor

The science universe is dimmer after one of our brightest stars, Susan Lee Lindquist, was taken by cancer on October 27, 2016. Sue was an innovative, creative, out-of-the-box scientific thinker. She had unique biological intuition-an instinct for both the way things worked and the right questions to ask to uncover new research insights. Her wide-ranging career began with the study of protein fo...

Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714): a visionary physician, scientist and communicator.

Three hundred years after his death, it is interesting to speculate how much this doctor from Carpi’s talent for clinical innovation and communication still relates to modern occupational medicine. Bernardino Ramazzini insisted that progress in medicine should not focus solely on physiology and clinical questions, but should also cover the health of the population, observing any relations betwe...

The Contributions of Lewis Fry Richardson to Drainage Theory, Soil Physics, and the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum

The English polymath Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953) made important contributions to many fields, including numerical weather prediction, finite difference solutions of partial differential equations, turbulent flow and diffusion, fractals, and the cause and evolution of conflicts. His first papers in 1908 concerned unconfined flow of water in saturated soil, arising in the design of required ...

Sir Thomas Lewis: pioneer cardiologist and clinical scientist

demonstration of transmissibility of a chicken sarcoma via cell-free filtrates, and his later work on the concept of carcinogenesis as a two-stage mechanism. But Saunders has already disarmingly apologized for any omissions which may have accidentally occurred; and we can only congratulate him on the vast amount of information he has singlehandedly accumulated for the benefit of present and fut...

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