Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, K.B.E., M.D., F.R.S

Portraits from memory. 17--Sir Walter Russell Brain, FRS, PRCP (later Lord Brain).

Bust of Lord Brain by Epstein. assignment but, from all that I could gather, an interview with Russell Brain would not easily be arranged and would, in any case, be a pretty daunting prospect. I took advice from one who knew him well. I was warned that any appointment made was quite likely to be cancelled, not once or twice but perhaps three or four times. I was also advised to rely on nothing ...

Sir Walter James Buchanan

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 Walter Scott: the Wounded Falcon

So much has been written about the Great Unknown, so many people have visited Abbotsford, so many have, in the past, read the Waverley Novels, that one wonders that anyone could find it worth while to pen yet another account of the life of that painful genius, Sir Walter Scott, and it was with some trepidation that your reviewer opened this book, certain that so small a volume would be trite, o...