Sir Harold Walter Kroto. 7 October 1939 — 30 April 2016

Walter Gehring (1939–2014)

and time. However, it’s not all about machines taking over from field workers. Technology can also help to get more people involved with field work in ecology and conservation. The Earthwatch Institute (www.earthwatch.org), for instance, supports a project called My Tree Tracker, based on a smartphone app encouraging volunteers to keep an eye on the growth and health of the trees in their citie...

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...

Walter Jakob Gehring (1939-2014)

Walter Jakob Gehring [3] discovered the homeobox [4], a DNA segment found in a specific cluster of genes [5] that determine the body plan of animals, plants, and fungi. Gehring identified the homeobox [4] in 1983, with the help of colleagues while isolating the Antennapedia (Antp) gene in fruit flies (Drosophila [6]) at the University of Basel [7] in Basel, Switzerland. Hox genes [8], a family ...

Sir Walter James Buchanan

Obituary: Walter J. Gehring (1939-2014).

Alex Schier looks back at the life and research of his graduate mentor and friend Walter Gehring.