The Honourable George Bligh O'Connor - 1883-1956: A Tribute

George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883?1962)

Papanicolaou was born 13 May 1883 in the city of Kymi on the island of Euboea in Greece. He was the third son of Maria Georgiou and Nikolas Papanicolaou. His father was a doctor and mayor of Kymi. In his youth, Papanicolaou studied literature, philosophy, foreign languages, and he played the violin. After high school in Athens, Greece, he studied medicine at the University of Athens in Athens. ...

A Tribute to George Stamatoyannopoulos.

AT THE OUTSET, I wish to express my deep sense of appreciation and gratitude to George Stamatoyannopoulos for his farsightedness in launching the American Society of Gene (and Cell) Therapy, the first annual meeting of which was held in Seattle, Washington, in 1998. I vividly recall the moving inaugural Presidential Address that George gave, emphasizing the role the young generation of scientis...

A tribute to George E. Palade.

George E. Palade (1912–2008) received his MD from the School of Medicine of the University of Bucharest, Romania. He was a member of the faculty of that school until 1945, when he came to the United States for postdoctoral studies. Palade joined Albert Claude at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1946 and was appointed assistant professor there in 1948. He progressed to full prof...

George Papanicolaou (1883-1962): Discoverer of the Pap smear.

In Changing Times : A Tribute to George Argyros

(see NEWSBRIEFS on p. 8) R at the Beckman Laser Institute have scored a major success in the area of technology transfer with the licensing and marketing of a patented cooling device used for many of the most common laser-based medical procedures. The Dynamic Cooling DeviceTM (DCD), which provides rapid and spatially selective cooling of the epidermis during laser treatments for a variety of sk...