Rutherford, Scientist Supreme (Campbell, John)

Sir John Campbell Brown, K.C.B.

The last English mail lias confirmed a rumour, which has during the Inst few weeks been floating among us, namely, that the much esteemed and respected head of the Indian Medical Department is among those whom the Queen has delighted to honor on the occasion of lier 5Gth birth-day. Of tho long roll of distinguished names which the London Gazette of the 29th May published as recipients of royal ...

John H. Laragh, MD: Clinician-Scientist

John Laragh is an outstanding clinician-scientist who discovered that renin, a mostly forgotten kidney hormone, causes essential hypertension1,2 and its complications.3 This discovery led to two new classes of drugs, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, which revolutionized the treatment of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and kidney disease...

Molyneux’s Question and Cognitive Impenetrability by John Campbell

John Newsom-Davis: clinician-scientist and so much more

John Newsom-Davis was born in 1932 and died, aged 74, in 2007. After national service in the Royal Air Force, he read Natural Sciences at Cambridge. Following clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital, he began research into respiratory neurophysiology with Tom Sears at the National Hospital, Queen Square, in London, and spent 1 year with Fred Plum at Cornell University in New York. After neur...

John Alexander Sinton, V.C., F.R.S. Soldier, doctor and scientist.

already in print about a spirochaete isolated from a case of sandfly fever. FIG 1. John Alexander Sinton, v.c-, How right he was when two years later O.B.E., M.D. (honoris causa). D.S.C., F.RS., D.T.M. the virus aetiology of sandfly fever was Brigadier Indian Medical Service established. Some years before I had heard 2nd December, 1884 25th March, 1956 about John Sinton's bravery. In 1929 and 1...