Professor Ian Macmillan Ward, FRS

Profile: Professor Ian Jones

and animated man with a dazzling set of credentials, including over 18 500 citations of his research output. What I immediately liked about him was his pragmatic determination to improve the quality of clinical performance by whatever means comes to hand. Ian Jones does not see himself as a purist researcher: 'The ultimate goal of research is making things better for people with these condition...

Professor Robert McNeill Alexander CBE FRS (1934-2016).

Robert McNeill Alexander, known to friends and colleagues as 'Neill', was a zoologist with an engineer's eye for how animals work. He used mathematical models to show how evolution has produced optimal designs. His skill was to choose appropriate models: realistic enough to contain the essence of a problem and yet simple enough to be tractable. He wrote fluently and easily: 23 books, 280 papers...

Professor Gerald Westheimer FRS Australian optometry's pre-eminent vision scientist.

Elected FRS 1976

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A need for better vitamin nutrition appears at three levels: vitamin insufficiency, deficiency, and dependence. A vitamin insufficiency requires the body to make some degree of metabolic adjustment because the amount of the coenzyme (vitamin) is limited. Myofascial pain syndromes are aggravated by insufficient levels of at least four Bcomplex vitamins as listed above. Vitamin deficiency, on the...