Sir George A. Grierson, O.M., K.C.I.E.

Sir George Campbell

trumpet of praise, and his enemies tried to give him a parting kick. We have nothing unkind to say of Sir George. True, lie once insulted the Calcutta doctors grievously by insinuating that they made false returns of their earnings. He was taken to book promptly and sharply on this account at the time. He was able to show that he was misled by statistics and made a frank and generous amende. Th...

Sir George Buchanan

George Buchanan was born in the year 1881 in Myddleton Square, Islington, where his father was in medical practice. He received his early education at University College School, and subsequently at the adjacent college. During this period he worked under T. H. Key and de Morgan; he acquired much fondness for classics, notably the English classics, and he was awarded medals in biology and chemis...

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM , KBE , PRS Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM

s (Listed in alphabetically order of author’s surname) Kazuyuki Aihara Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo CHAOS AND BIFURCATIONS IN THE HODGKIN-HUXLEY EQUATIONS AND SQUID GIANT AXONS Chaos, or deterministic chaos, is ubiquitous in nonlinear dynamical systems of the real world, including biological systems. Nerve membranes have their own nonlinear dynamics which generate and pr...

Sir George Pickering (1904-1982).

Autopsy on Sir George Douglas, A.D. 1636.

ON 12 March 1636, the inhabitants of the town of Demmin in Pomerania were astonished to hear the bells of Saint Bartholomew's Church ringing out. Their astonishment was due to the fact that it was not a Sunday when the church services took place but a Saturday and the time was eight-thirty in the evening when most good people were abed. As the bells continued to ring loud and strong, the govern...