Louis Bazin (1920-2011)

Paul Mead Doty (1920–2011)

Offered an attractive choice of PhD berths, he opted for Columbia, and the theoretician Joseph E. Mayer as supervisor. The war intervened and Doty was deflected for a period into work on heavy water on the periphery of the Manhattan Project. It did not impede his daytime research, which progressed rapidly: he and a fellow student, Bruno Zimm, built the country's first light-scattering instrumen...

William H. Prusoff (1920–2011): Father of Antiviral Chemotherapy

Regarded as the father of antiviral chemotherapy, William H. Prusoff (Bill) passed away on April 3, 2011, in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Prusoff spent most of his career studying analogs of thymidine, a nucleoside building block of DNA, with an eye toward developing therapeutic agents. By exploring analogs to thymidine for use as antiviral drugs, his research created a new scientific paradigm f...

Herve Bazin , and Brian

Polymeric IgA is t ransported from blood to bile by the rat liver (1, 2) in a manner which may be analogous to the transport of polymeric IgA across the mucosal epithelium. Such transport is thought to be mediated by secretory component (SC) 1 an epithelial cell glycoprotein which acts as a receptor for polymeric IgA on these cells (3-8). Fisher et al. (9) recently reported that Ig transport by...

Homer F. Swift, 1920

François Jacob (1920–2013)

“Plus que jamais, la recherche me paraissait s’identifier à la nature humaine. En exprimer l’appétit, le désir de vivre. C’était bien le meilleur moyen trouvé par l’homme de braver le chaos de l’univers. De dominer la mort.” (More than ever, scientific research seemed to me to be intrinsic to human nature. It expressed the hunger, the desire to live. It has, in fact, been the best means found b...