Obituary: Marc Leng

Obituary: Marc Leng

th Marc Leng who died on the 7 of May 2000 at the age of 64 from pleural cancer has made an important contribution in the field of Biophysics. Through years of successful studies on deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) and on the mechanism of action ofthe well-known anticancer drug cisplatin, he gained high international standing and generated more than 200 publications and 3 patents. His death is a gr...

Xiang Leng JSNM.dvi

In this study we performed a series of ozone and vacuum annealing experiments on epitaxial La2-xSrxCuO4+δ thin films. The transition temperature after each annealing step has been measured by the mutual inductance technique. The relationship between the effective doping and the vacuum annealing time has been studied. Short-time ozone annealing at 4700C oxidizes an underdoped film all the way to...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...