Sir Harold Hartley

Sir Harold Ridley's vision.

This valediction to the late Sir Harold Ridley commemorates the 50th year of his first publication in the St Thomas’s Hospital Report, describing his pioneer undertaking to research, design, and implant an intraocular lens to correct aphakia. Dissatisfied with the poor acuity and loss of binocular single vision following unilateral cataract extraction and the poor outcome, particularly in child...

Measurement of insulin action: a tribute to Sir Harold Himsworth.

Sir Harold Himsworth was a renowned clinician and researcher. Among his myriad of accomplishments, he was the first to differentiate diabetes mellitus into 'insulin-sensitive' and 'insulin-insensitive' forms. To help distinguish these two types, he developed the first test to measure insulin sensitivity, the insulin-glucose test. This article reviews Himsworth's pioneer methods and subsequent a...

Sir Harold Percival Himsworth, K.C.B. - 19 May 1905--1 November 1993.

Sir Nicholas Harold Ridley, Kt, MD, FRCS, FRS: contributions in addition to the intraocular lens.

Most obituaries are crafted to provide a brief biographical sketch of an individual, to list his or her accomplishments and honors, and to express gratitude to the deceased. In this memorial to Sir Harold as well as another obituary covering different facts of his life published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, we have chosen a diverse course. Our purpose here is not only to honor him,...

Harold Varmus.

The Yale Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS) is an annual event organized solely by graduate students. The GSRS is an open forum for sharing and learning about the research being conducted by the next generation of scientists today's graduate students. This year, on November 1, 2002, some 300 Yale researchers from graduate students to distinguished faculty gathered in the Levitson Audito...