Obituary: Ramon Margalef (1919-2004)

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

In memoriam: Celso-Ramon Garcia, M.D. (1922–2004), reproductive medicine visionary

This article traces the career of Celso-Ramon Garcia (1922-2004), noted physician, educator, and internationally renowned pioneer in the field of reproductive endocrinology. His work helped to formulate oral contraceptives used by millions of women throughout the world. Garcia's research collaborators included Gregory Pincus and John Rock, who together finalized the landmark clinical data neede...

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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...