Professor John Philip Grime, FRS (1935–2021)

Professor John Hilton

Professor John Hilton j0u sudcten death on August 28th, 1943, of Professor Cou ton means a grievous loss to the National mitt0011 ^0r Cental Hygiene of whose Executive Comyea e? he had been a member since 1939. This was the f0r r ln, which Professor Hilton made a broadcast appeal Wii h lic financial support of the Council's work, for pCn the Association has reason to be especially grateful, rig...

Professor John Clutton Brock

for John Clutton-Brock, the subject became a consuming interest and occupied more and more of his time in general practice. Although self taught in the main, clearly he was very good at it and his skills were held in very high esteem for he was soon appointed as one of the first consultant anaesthetists at Lincoln County Hospital, shortly after the introduction of the NHS. A few years later he ...

Profile: Professor John Mendelsohn.

E-mail address: jan 1574-7891/$ – see fron doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2 Lessons learnt from Hurricane Ike last autumn are now guiding John Mendelsohn in his management of the largest US cancer institute in the current financial down turn. ‘‘We face critical financial pressures due to decreasing federal research support, cutbacks in Medicaid and Medicare, reduced philanthropic gifts, and increases in ...

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.