Sir Ian Brownlie, KT, CBE, QC (1932-2010): The Professor as Counsel

Profile: Professor Ian Jones

and animated man with a dazzling set of credentials, including over 18 500 citations of his research output. What I immediately liked about him was his pragmatic determination to improve the quality of clinical performance by whatever means comes to hand. Ian Jones does not see himself as a purist researcher: 'The ultimate goal of research is making things better for people with these condition...

Sir Ian Fraser 1901-1999

Ian Fraser died at his residence, 19 Upper Malone Road, on 11th May in his ninety-ninth year. He had been a significant force in Ulster surgery, indeed the entire Ulster medical scene, almost from his appointment as an 'honorary attending surgeon in charge ofthe out-patient department' at the then Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (in Queen Street) in 1927 until late in life; and he was to rec...

Professor Robert McNeill Alexander CBE FRS (1934-2016).

Robert McNeill Alexander, known to friends and colleagues as 'Neill', was a zoologist with an engineer's eye for how animals work. He used mathematical models to show how evolution has produced optimal designs. His skill was to choose appropriate models: realistic enough to contain the essence of a problem and yet simple enough to be tractable. He wrote fluently and easily: 23 books, 280 papers...

In Memory of Professor Gastón Guzmán (1932-2016).

On January 12, 2016, Professor Gastón Guzmán passed away. One can say without a doubt that Latin America has lost its greatest mycologist.* I personally knew Professor Guzmán for many years. He was truly a great man admired by all who came to know him. I had just met with him last August at the Eighth International Medical Mushroom Conference in Manizales, where I had the pleasure of congratula...

Professor Barbara Machnicka-Rowińska DVM PhD (1932–2016)