Sir Michael Foster

Sir Michael Foster.

Sir Michael Drury: an appreciation.

Kt, oBe, frcP, frcGP, fracGP 1926–2014 Professor Sir Michael Drury, who died on 11 June, was a GP in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for 38 years, the first professor of general practice at the University of Birmingham and President of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 1985–1988. He was a towering figure in general practice; unassuming, approachable, patient, a superb listener, unflapp...

Sir Michael Atiyah’s Einstein Lecture: “The Nature of Space”

674 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 53, NUMBER 6 Sir Michael Atiyah, winner of both a Fields Medal and an Abel Prize, delivered the first annual Einstein Public Lecture at the University of NebraskaLincoln.1 The smashing success of Atiyah’s talk inspired the local student newspaper, The Daily Nebraskan, to quip “Usually Mick Jagger is the only petite Brit who can entertain a sold-out, adoring America...

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 1 through 19, 1865–1895

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 53 through 75, 1865–1895

My dear Foster I have not had any news of the Pendel myograph as yet. I have no doubt you picked the best!! I am off on Wednesday next July 2. Tuesday July 1. is the wife’s birthday & it would be jolly if you could come & dine & have a yarn. Will Mrs Foster be coming up with you? If so, her coming would make it jollier. Formal invitation on the largest sized note paper sent if required. I have ...