[Note: Professor Robert Garapon Visiting Professor in University College]

Visiting Professor March 29 - 30 , 2012

MHR celebration issue in tribute to Professor Sir Robert Edwards.

Bob Edwards died earlier this year and will be sadly missed by all those who knew him. Recognition of his outstanding contributions came rather late in his career but finally, in 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Bobs achievements have been widely documented on a number of different occasions. Amongst these he set upMolecular Human Reproduction (MHR) and as such w...

Professor Mirosława Narkiewicz (1931–2017) – biographical note

Mirosława Narkiewicz (maiden name: Broda) was born on 19th September 1931 in Łuck (Volhynia region, today in the Ukraine). She started her education in 1938, and during the war continued it in clandestine classes. She lived in her family town until 1943, then moved to Mościce near Tarnów, and from July 1945 she lived in Sopot with her parents and two younger brothers: Henryk and Zbigniew. She c...

Professor Robert A. Alberty--a legacy of excellence.

Professor Robert A. Alberty has created a legacy of excellence both in scientific research and in university education and administration. His career spans 67 years, during which time he has made many critical and seminal contributions in the areas of thermodynamics and kineticssthe vast majority of it dealing with biochemical reactions. The complexity of biochemical substances is largely attri...

Professor Robert F. Borkenstein - Appreciation of His Life and Work.

Few men have made such a significant and sustained contribution to their chosen field of endeavor as Robert F. Borkenstein. He is an international forensic science celebrity, highly respected by his peers. The two most well-known products of his brilliance are the Breathalyzer, invented in 1954, and the "Grand Rapids Study", a seminal work which established the relative risk of being involved i...