William Jean Beeson 1926-1990

William Bateson (1861-1926)

At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson [3] studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin [4]'s theory of evolution [5] and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline. By studying variation and advocating Mendelian genetics, Bateson furthered the field...

[Jean François Marie Aicardi (1926-2015)].

Paul Bruce Beeson.

In the spring of 1965, Dr. Beeson decided to leave the chairmanship of Internal Medicine at Yale for the Nuffield Chair in Internal Medicine at Oxford. With this decision he brought to an end a fruitful and exciting period in the development of the Yale Medical School. In recognition of his contributions to the institution in which he played so important a part, the editors of the YALE JOURNAL ...

Bibliography of Paul Bruce Beeson

1. Beeson, P. B. and Hoagland, C. L.: Use of calcium chloride in relief of chills following serum administration. Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. (N. Y.), 1938, 38, 160-162. 2. Hoagland, C. L., Beeson, P. B., and Goebel, W. F.: The capsular polysaccharide of the Type XIV pneumococcus and its relationship to the specific substances of human blood. Science, 1938, 88, 261-263. 3. MacLeod, C. M., Hoagland, C...

Jean - Paul Fermand and Jean - Claude Brouet

In the majority o f chronic lymphocytic leukemias (CLL), proliferative B lymphocytes are thought to be frozen in vivo at a given maturat ion stage (1). Recently, several studies have emphasized that CLL cells could be driven to different iate into plasma cells in vitro (with or without proliferation) upon t r iggering by mitogens (2, 3, 4) or T cel l -der ived factors (5, 6). Th u s far, howeve...