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Obituary: Professor Michael Argyle

Michael Argyle, who died aged 77 on September 6th, was one of the handful of British psychologists to have gained an international reputation. He was a pioneer in the scientific study of social behaviour. His research on interviews and conversations established that nonverbal rather than verbal communication dictate the impressions people make on others. So much is the primacy of ‘‘body languag...

Obituary: John Michael Thresh – On lifelong war with plant viruses.

Mike came from a farming background in the north of England and spent much of his childhood on the family farm during World War II (1939– 1945). This was before the days of full mechanisations and he can claim to have ploughed with horses and harvested cereals for threshing by steam power. His mother harboured ideas of having a "blood and guts" veterinarian in the family but a career in agricul...

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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...