Walter Heape, 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 ...

Sketch : W Grey Walter 1 Walter

Nobel-winning Sir Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War wrote a chapter on the "wizards" who had helped Britain win the war in the air by the development and use of radar. William Grey Walter (1910-1977) was one of those young wizards. He used his experience to design and construct a life-like robot with a nonlinear dynamic brain, which offered an existence proof that brains ...

Walter Salisbury

Mr. Walter Salisbury died suddenly at Northampton on "th January, 1935, at the age of forty-six. He had been suffering from pneumonia following influenza. He entered the Bristol Medical School in 1906, and was a student at the -ftoyal Infirmary, winning the Tibbits Prize for Surgery. He qualified M.B., B.S. London, in 1913, and held the offices ?f House Surgeon and Casualty Officer at the Royal...

Elected FRS 1976

Walter Dickson

Born in Edinburgh on the 1st February 1821, he was educated at the High School of that city. It was at the University of Edinburgh that he received his medical education. His early youth gave promise of his future ; for his assiduity, his love of work, during this period of his life, were such as to augur well for that future. He graduated in 1841 with first-class honours; his Thesis on " The P...