William (Bill) Henry Baker (1920–2019)

William Henry Harsant

W. H. Harsant, who died on 10th February, at his Clifton residence, in his eighty-third year, was born at Epsom, a?d educated at the City of London School. Entering Guys Hospital, he qualified as L.S.A. in 1873, the year following he took the M.R.C.S., and was appointed House Surged1 and afterwards Resident Obstetric Officer at Guy's. Leaving London, he was appointed House Surgeon at the Bristo...

William Henry: His Achievements and His Law

Henry is a well-known name to all students of physical chemistry. Despite physical handicaps resulting from a childhood accident, he went on to a brilliant career in chemistry and medicine. The extensive and careful measurements that he made of the solubility of gases have given us the law that carries his name. Not many are familiar with his work on the steam sterilization of fabrics and other...

William Henry Fry’s Leonora: The Italian Connection

Since that time, there has been a widespread consensus about the derivation of Leonora from Italian and French models. In 1890, Frédéric Louis Ritter claimed that in Fry’s operas ‘the cantilena [is] according to Italian models; the ensemble, orchestration, and dramatic arrangement, according to French tradition’,2 while in 1904, Louis C. Elson pointed to another model, that of the English (but ...

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William Henry Welch (1850-1934): the road to Johns Hopkins.

William Henry Welch's selection in 1884 as the first faculty member of the new medical school at Johns Hopkins created the invigorating atmosphere that generated the revolutionary changes in medical training and laboratory medicine that transformed medicine in America. Dr. Welch's family traditions, his New England upbringing, Yale education, and German university experience prepared a unique i...