Obituary in Remembrance of Tony Allan

Obituary : A remembrance of Melvin

After a distinguished career of research and teaching, Melvin Calvin died in Berkeley, California on 8 January 1997, at the age of 85. Throughout his life, Calvin exhibited an intense curiosity that drove his scientific research. Although he may be best known for his contributions to our knowledge of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and reduction, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

In remembrance.

“John was an inspiring teacher and experimentalist. His educational passion was creating hands-on experiments built from ordinary parts you can find at any hardware store, what he lovingly called ‘mulch,’” said MIT senior lecturer in physics, and former King student, Peter Dourmashkin ’76 (physics), ’78 (math), PhD ’84. “He was MITx before MITx.” King was born in London and educated in France, ...

Tony Hyman

Q & A the major classes and many physical features are still under debate. To polarise arthropod trees, and define the likely morphological characters and developmental mechanisms of the arthropod ancestor, analysis of sister phyla in the Panarthropoda is required. Tardigrada are all very small, likely to have highly modified developmental processes, and have highly idiosyncratic morphology, an...

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Tony Pawson: In Memoriam

We lost a star scientist this summer, Tony Pawson, who made incredible contributions in his shortened career to our understanding of the biochemical mechanisms of cell signaling. Tony, a Canadian of British origin, performed groundbreaking research spanning nearly 40 years that provided tremendous insight into how biochemical signals communicate information both between and inside cells. He was...