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Allan Charles Wilson (1934-1991)

Allan C. Wilson studied genes [5], proteins, and body structures of animals and humans [6] in the US during the second half of the twentieth century. Wilson also studied human evolution [7] . Although morphology [8] and behaviors of humans [6] (Homo sapiens [9]) and great apes differ, Wilson found that they have biochemical and genetic similarities. Wilson and his colleagues calculated the time...

A visit to Sir Charles Sherrington.

GOING through old papers recently I came upon some notes recording a visit I had paid to Sir Charles Sherrington on 7 August 1945 at the Hope Nursing Home in Cambridge where he then lived.' He was eighty-eight and already seriously crippled by arthritis but very alert in mind and ready to talk. Indeed he remained so until his death in 1952. The day before, I had been in London fox an interview ...

The poetry of Sir Charles Sherrington.

The title-poem in Sherrington’s The Assaying of Brabantius (1925) is a substantial piece taking up about three-sevenths of the volume. A third of the remaining poems ascertainably belong to the period of the First World War, but this visionary allegory with a quasi-mediaeval setting offers itself as a relatively early work. Its theme of the sinner redeemed by the innocent love for a boy (yet co...

Sir Charles Locock and potassium bromide.

On 12 May 1857, Edward Sieveking read a paper on epilepsy to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in London. During the discussion that followed Sir Charles Locock, obstetrician to Queen Victoria, was reported to have commented that during the past 14 months he had used potassium bromide to successfully stop epileptic seizures in all but one of 14 or 15 women with 'hysterical' or catamenia...

Sir Charles Bell: The artist who went to the roots!