Memories of Sir Wilfred Cockcroft 1923–1999

Farewell Wilfred

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of our friend and colleague, Wilfred Röling, on September 25th. Wilfred was a truly inspirational scholar active in a range of topics within environmental microbiology and microbial biotechnology, and was one of only a handful of researchers worldwide able to effectively combine wet and in silico science. The loss to scholarly endeavo...

Wilfred Leslie Sleight

Unions of Cockcroft Two-complexes

A combinatorial group-theoretic hypothesis is presented that serves as a necessary and suucient condition for a union of connected Cock-croft two-complexes to be Cockcroft. This hypothesis has a component that can be expressed in terms of the second homology of groups. The hypothesis is applied to the study of the third homology of groups given by generators and relators.

Memories of Lord Moynihan. A conversation between Sir Reginald Murley and John Hosford.

thigh there lay, at one time, thirteen all beseeching to be taken next. It was strange to feel my clothes stiff with blood and my arms powerless with the exertion of using my knife."22 Bell was also a talented artist and his watercolours of the wounded, now in the RAMC Historical Museum, are an evocative record of his work. Of those patients not fit enough to return to active duty most returned...

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