Professor Sir ‘Malcolm’ Keith Sykes 1925–2019

Obituary: Professor Keith Rayner (1943–2015)

Keith was the world's leading expert in the study of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability to read in children and adults. In the 1970s, he pioneered the use of eye-tracking methodology in psychological research, which enabled the precise measurement and manipulation of read text with millisecond control. Through Keith's work, researchers can accurately predict how long an adult will ...

MHR celebration issue in tribute to Professor Sir Robert Edwards.

Bob Edwards died earlier this year and will be sadly missed by all those who knew him. Recognition of his outstanding contributions came rather late in his career but finally, in 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Bobs achievements have been widely documented on a number of different occasions. Amongst these he set upMolecular Human Reproduction (MHR) and as such w...

Professor Sir Raymond 'Bill' Hoffenberg: a celebration and thanksgiving.

The different names and titles Bill had are a way of revealing a variety of relationships. If one knew him from childhood, he was Billie. Army and university friends left off the diminutive; he was Bill, plain and simple. To his patients he was Dr Hoffenberg. To his students he was Hoff (not to his face) and Prof (to his face). To Professor was added, in due course, Dean and then President – ti...

Professor Sir Derek H. R. Barton and Heterocycles

Issues of risk : ‘ this unique opportunity ’ Professor Sir

Introduction I was a privilege to be invited to deliver the William Pickles Lecture this year. He has always been a hero of mine, and his book, Epidemiology in country practice,1 has been a source of inspiration. The introductory chapter of his book sets the scene for this lecture — he describes the population at risk, assesses their vulnerabilities, and then carries out meticulous and detailed...