Remembering Robert Berryman (1921-1982)

Remembering the Mathematics of Robert Brown Gardner

Robby Gardner, one of the organizers of this Summer Research Institute, passed away on May 5, 19981. Robby led an extremely active mathematical life producing more than fifty papers, three books, eighteen masters students and thirteen Ph.D students. He seemed to spend a sizeable fraction of every year traveling to conferences and meetings around the world. I was continually amazed by the number...

Remembering George L. Wied, M.D., February 7, 1921-July 25, 2004

A personal tribute to George L. Wied, M.D., a founder of the medical subspecialty, cytopathology, who died July 25, 2004.

Robert Lloyd Rausch--a life in nature and field biology: 1921-2012.

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...

Seymour Benzer 1921–2007

It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...