Rupert Everett Billingham. 15 October 1921 – 16 November 2002

preliminary draft November 15 , 2002 Mirror Symmetry and Elliptic Curves ∗

I review how recent results in quantum field theory confirm two general predictions of the mirror symmetry program in the special case of elliptic curves: (1) counting functions of holomorphic curves on a CalabiYau space (Gromov-Witten invariants) are ‘quasi-modular forms’ for the mirror family; (2) they can be computed by a summation over trivalent Feynman graphs. ∗To be published in The Modul...

Rupert Billingham and the Role of Serendipity in the Discovery of Transplant Tolerance

T he Presidential Address gave me an opportunity to pay tribute to my teacher, Rupert Billingham, by recounting the early history of transplantation. Informal conversations with Billingham during the six years I spent in his department and during a recent visit to his retirement home on Martha’s Vineyard provided me with some little known details of the story. Even ASTS members may not be famil...

The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Medical informatics (16): John Anderson (1921-2002)

From the History of Medical Informatics / ACTA INFORM MED. 2017 MAR; 25(1): 58-59 John Anderson, MD, MA BSc, MRCP, FRCP, was professor of medicine at King’s College Hospital Medical School. He was essentially an innovator and pioneered developments in metabolic medicine, medical education and medical computing (1-3). His background was in history, having obtained a BA with honours in modern his...

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November 2002 Extramurally Speaking

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