Professor William B. Thompson: 1922–1995

Thomas William Thompson

nature which gave to Thompson's work a value of its own. But not less necessary for this work, upon which Thompson and the Society were alike engaged, was his ability to consider his subject from every view-point; to state in exact proportion the evidence which told in favour of, or against, a hypothesis that had to be examined. There has passed into the hands of the Societ}' an unfinished piec...

William Robin Thompson, 1887-1972.

Art - Thompson (B)

283 Neural correlates of perceptual decisions have been identified in the visual cortex of monkeys observing weak or ambiguous stimuli1–4. Implicit in such studies is a behavioral report about a sensory event that allows an inference about the subject’s perceptual state. To examine the link between sensation and action, we have used a signal-detection protocol to investigate visual signals in a...

By William C . Thompson , Laurence D . Mueller , and Dan E .

experts sometimes disagree about the interpretation and statistical characterization of test results. This article will describe the key controversies and will explain what lawyers need to know to recognize and deal with controversial types of DNA evidence. When labs try to “type” samples that contain too little DNA, or DNA that is too degraded, the results of the DNA test can be unreliable. Th...

Professor William Bynum: Academic Pioneer, Role Model and Dear Friend

I vividly remember the first time I met Bill Bynum. The American Council of Learned Societies had given me a post-doctoral fellowship, and I arrived in 1976 at what was then the sub-Department of the History of Medicine, located in a handful of rooms next to the Department of Anatomy in the godless institution on Gower Street. I entered that warren in search of my quarry and found two rooms mor...