''Tis Sixty Years Since.' Dr. George Fordyce

Sixty years of haematology.

T he diamond anniversary of the Journal of Clinical Pathology (JCP) provides the opportunity to reflect of the past 60 years of haematology. It offers the chance to look back as well as forwards. This has been a time of unforeseeable advances, of which I remember only those of the past 40 years. Review of the articles published by the journal in its first decade immediately makes evident the ch...

Sixty years later.

In writings that preceded the creation of our College, Dr Victor Johnston, our first Executive Director, detailed the need to encourage GPs to be active in hospital care, to create proper postgraduate training for general practice, and to enhance research in general practice.1 Fast forward to today: family medicine is much better defined as a discipline, and we have robust standards of training...

Obituary of Dr. Angelo Di George

Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Dr Robert George (Rob) Jones FRCPsych

Sixty Years of Bernoulli Convolutions

The distribution νλ of the random series ∑ ±λ is the infinite convolution product of 1 2 (δ−λn + δλn). These measures have been studied since the 1930’s, revealing connections with harmonic analysis, the theory of algebraic numbers, dynamical systems, and Hausdorff dimension estimation. In this survey we describe some of these connections, and the progress that has been made so far on the funda...