William Morris Davis: Father of Geomorphology or Father of Geology’s Unrecognized Paradigm Problem

William Blair-Bell—father and founder

JOHN PEEL, William Blair-Bell-father andfounder, London, Royal College ofObstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1986, 8vo, pp. iii, 89, illus., £6.00 + £1 postage. It has been said that Blair-Bell (1871-1936) was the greatest gynaecologist ofthis century: that he laid the foundations of modem gynaecology, raising it from a branch of general surgery to a separate and important new discipline. His adm...

William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922): father of American surgery.

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...

"The child is father of the man" (William Wordsworth, 1802).

The occurrence of atherosclerosis at an early age has long been the subject of curiosity and wonder. Isn't it remarkable that 65 of 140 combat soldiers who died as a result of injuries sustained in World War I had increased coronary atherosclerotic plaques at a mean age of 27.7 years (1)? How interesting is it that grossly visible lesions not causing obstruction were present in 35% of 300 Korea...

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...