T. Desmond Williams (1921-87)

Williams, T

This paper describes a study of a large design and manufacture engineering project, undertaken as part of a Delay and Disruption litigation. Design changes and delays in design approval would have caused delay to the project; in order to fulfil a tight time-constraint, management had to increase parallel development in the network logic, reducing delay but setting up feed-back loops that marked...

Desmond Mervyn Germans

Socio-economic position predicts grip strength and its decline between 79 and 87 years: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.

Seymour Benzer 1921–2007

It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...

The Dentists' Act, 1921

new profession by the possible student. The professional status of the Dentist, which was to have been made secure by the Act, was so affected by the unprofessional conduct, such as advertising and canvassing, of the uneducated and unregistered, that few could be found to enter the profession, and so what the Act set out to secure for the protection of the public, it failed to obtain, in that i...