William Andrew Dale 1920-1990

William James Morton [1845-1920]: like father, like son (?).

William Thomas Green Morton, the man most commonly associated with the introduction of anesthesia in 1846, fathered William James Morton. William James Morton's contributions to society were substantial. He conducted pioneering work in radiology, radiation oncology, and therapeutic electricity. He authored numerous textbooks and articles, and he was an editor of a journal on human behavior. His...

William H. Prusoff (1920–2011): Father of Antiviral Chemotherapy

Regarded as the father of antiviral chemotherapy, William H. Prusoff (Bill) passed away on April 3, 2011, in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Prusoff spent most of his career studying analogs of thymidine, a nucleoside building block of DNA, with an eye toward developing therapeutic agents. By exploring analogs to thymidine for use as antiviral drugs, his research created a new scientific paradigm f...

Edited by DALE PURVES GEORGE J . AUGUSTINE DAVID FITZPATRICK WILLIAM C . HALL ANTHONY - SAMUEL

Dale Jamieson

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GP Education in Northern Ireland 1920 – 1990. A Study of the Use and Misuse of Power

The use and misuse of power has been demonstrated. It has been shown that GP education has changed very significantly between 1920 and 1990. Many excellent improvements have been achieved. Nevertheless, despite these gains, it is quite impossible to accept the hypothesis that there has been a constant steady improvement through history to the present perfect state (so-called Whiggism). Rather, ...