Sir Henry Lyons, F.R.S

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...

Sir Henry Hallett Dale and acetylcholine story.

Living organisms depend upon their nervous systems to provide integrated responses to environmental stresses. Due to Chiarles Sherrington we recognize that the key to understanding nervous integration resides not in the body of the cell or in its long filamentous axon, nor in the ionic slhifts involved in electrical propagation, but rather in the subtle events occurring at the gap between nerve...

Sir Henry Dale, The Great Investigator.

Sir Henry Dale, THe GreaT inveSTiGaTor Henry Dale (1875-1968), a Londoner by birth was one of the most productive scientists in contemporary England, and was endowed with extraordinary and active longevity. He completed his medical training from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. After choosing to work in basic investigations, he joined the Physiology Department of University College and worked under ...

Sir Henry Thompson's Stricture of Urethra

Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS: biomimetic studies at Oxford.

October 2005 has brought about the end of an era in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford. Almost two years since the doors of the Dyson Perrins (DP) Laboratory were closed to organic chemistry, the last Head of this renowned department has retired his chair. Professor Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS (Fig. 1), Wayneflete Professor of Organic Chemistry, joined Oxford in 1978, succeeding Sir Ewart ...