Sir James Fraser, O.M., F.B.A., F.R.S

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...

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 Walter James Buchanan

Sir James Mackenzie

Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

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...