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Martin Rodbell, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994, passed away 7 December 1998 after a long illness. Rodbell had a long and distinguished career in research and senior leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health. At different times in his career, he conducted research at the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Di...

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Howard Elcock has passed away, aged 75, while at his holiday retreat in Tolo, Greece, in early summer 2017. He was Professor Emeritus of Government at Northumbria University, UK. He was educated at the Priory School for Boys, Shrewsbury and The Queen’s College Oxford, gaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1964 and a B Phil (now M Phil) in Politics in 1966. He took his MA in 1968...

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...