Sir Frederic Still (1868-1941): the father of British paediatrics

A career in British paediatrics.

Sir John Gurdon: father of nuclear reprogramming.

Sir John Gurdon founded the field of nuclear reprogramming. His work set the stage for the ever burgeoning area of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Here I provide personal reflections on times I shared with John Gurdon and professional reflections of the impact of his ground-breaking research on my own development as a scientist and on the field in general. His paradigm-shifting exp...

Sir Leonard Rogers, FRS (1868-1962) and his papers.

Sir Leonard Rogers (Fig. 1) was a "perfect tiger for hard work"' and, moreover, meticulously careful and thorough in everything that he did. It would not, therefore, have surprised his colleagues to learn that he preserved much of the paperwork he acquired during his long career and spent many hours of his retirement sorting, rearranging , and annotating his diaries, records, and correspondence...

Sir Leonard Parsons of Birmingham (1879-1950) and antenatal paediatrics.

Born and educated in the Midlands, Sir Leonard Parsons made major contributions to the field of paediatrics in that area and played a leading role in the regional organisation of this specialty throughout the United Kingdom in the later years of his life. He was a founder member and later President of the British Paediatric Association, and later became Vice-President of the International Pedia...

Sir Charles Tupper: fighting doctor to father of confederation

misogyny, Gilman exaggerates his anti-Semitism, arguing that Freud's theories on creativity were universalizations of traits Weininger had considered to be quintessentially Jewish. (Gilman does not deign to tell us why, if Weininger's anti-Semitism was indeed so significant, it was wholly ignored by such openly anti-Semitic readers as Karl Kraus, who celebrated Weininger merely as a misogynist....