Sir Rudolph Peters, MC, MD, FRS

Sir Nicholas Harold Ridley, Kt, MD, FRCS, FRS: contributions in addition to the intraocular lens.

Most obituaries are crafted to provide a brief biographical sketch of an individual, to list his or her accomplishments and honors, and to express gratitude to the deceased. In this memorial to Sir Harold as well as another obituary covering different facts of his life published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, we have chosen a diverse course. Our purpose here is not only to honor him,...

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 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 ...

Sir Leonard Rogers, FRS (1868-1962) and his papers.

Sir Leonard Rogers (Fig. 1) was a "perfect tiger for hard work"' and, moreover, meticulously careful and thorough in everything that he did. It would not, therefore, have surprised his colleagues to learn that he preserved much of the paperwork he acquired during his long career and spent many hours of his retirement sorting, rearranging , and annotating his diaries, records, and correspondence...

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972), MA,MD,DSc,FRCP,FRS.