Radiology and Physics: The Mackenzie Davidson Memorial Lecture

The Stribeck memorial lecture

Stribeck’s publications ‘Kugellager für beliebige Belastungen’ and ‘Die wesentlichen Eigenschaften der Gleitund Rollenlager’ were remarkable for their time. Many of the findings were revolutionary and are still considered quite modern. The method used by Stribeck to calculate load distribution between the balls within a ball bearing is still used today, otherwise, a full finite element analysis...

3rd FY Khoo Memorial Lecture--education, professionalism, outsourcing and the future of radiology.

The Second Carey Coombs Memorial Lecture. "The Radiology of Rheumatic Heart Disease"

The lecturer opened with a tribute to the work of Dr. Carey Coombs on the aetiology of rheumatic heart disease. He pointed out that development of X-ray investigation of the heart had been extended by the introduction of angeiocardiography : that is, injection into a vein of a substance opaque to X-rays followed immediately by taking X-ray films of the heart. Angeiocardiography has clarified ou...

James Mackenzie Lecture 1992. The Indians' revenge.

Introduction I FEEL highly honoured to give this James Mackenzie lecture at the conclusion of the Royal College of General Practitioners' 40th anniversary year and, like my predecessors, have found that one of the pleasures of its preparation has been rereading the biographies of Sir James Mackenziel and a few of his many publications. This man of humble Scottish origins, after many years of ge...

The Aharon Katchalsky Memorial Lecture

AHARON KATZIR-KATCHALSKY was an outstanding scientist and humanist, whose objective contributions to our knowledge and understanding had long before his tragic death assured him a place in the top rank of this century. The world can ill afford to lose such minds. Not for this alone, however, is he being missed and mourned. After all, these of his contributions stand and will remain. He is being...