Robert Alexander Darling

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...

CCCXX. PHYTIN IN HUMAN NUTRITION. BY ROBERT ALEXANDER McCANCE

Robert Alexander McCance, and his forays into Experimental Medicine with Elsie Widdowson.

RA McCance was born in Dunmurry and, after naval air service in the First World War and time on a dairy farm, went to Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge with the intention of taking the Diploma in Agriculture. However, he was persuaded that a career in medicine might be more practicable and after success in the Natural Sciences Tripos he worked with Gowland Hopkins for three years. As a married...

K-Sample Anderson-Darling Tests

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Alexander Ogilvy