The Disappearance of Sophia Frances Hickman, M.D.

The Case of Miss Hickman

The quest for Hickman.

Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830), "the Rupert Brooke of anaesthesia",1 has a wellestablished place in medical history. A Shropshire general practitioner, who died young, he successfully carried out minor surgical procedures on animals rendered insensible by carbon dioxide and published his results in 1824 in a locally-printed pamphlet, which was reviewed unfavourably in the Lancet and Gentleman's...

Sophia Antipolis

Frances E. Jensen’s The Teenage Brain

The unpredictable and sometimes incomprehensible moods and behaviors of a teenager can be a head-scratching mystery-especially to parents. Hormones, boredom, social media, peer pressure, and drugs and alcohol are just a few of the factors to consider. Frances E. Jensen, M.D., professor and chair of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and the mother of two sons who are now in their twent...

Mary Frances Lyon (1925–2014)

Mary Frances Lyon Mary Lyon was one of the most notable geneticists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her discovery of X inactivation, an early example of epigenetic gene regulation, but she alsomade fundamental contributions to the entire field of genetics. Mary was born on May 15, 1925 in Norwich, in the rural east of the United Kingdom. She was the first child of Clifford James Lyon, ...