William R. Milnor: Teacher, scientist, administrator, friend

The Teacher Scientist Network

Children often think that classroom science is not ‘real’ science. They also carry a poor image of ‘real’ science and scientists. Ask a group of children to draw or describe a scientist and — apart from portraying the scientist as a middle-aged male, with glasses and wild hair — they nearly always associate him with eccentricity and absent-mindedness, madness even. Worse, the context will often...

Takeshi Matsuura: A Truly Inspirational Friend and Membrane Scientist

William Nathan Schoenfeld (1915-1996): innovative scientist, inspiring teacher, relentless questioner, complicated man.

The scientific and academic contributions of the late William N. Schoenfeld (1915–1996) are large and, together with his personal qualities as a researcher, thinker, and teacher, supply the themes for this memorial essay on his work and life.

Paul Ehrlich as a commercial scientist and research administrator.

Historians and biographers have studied Paul Ehrlich as a biochemist, a medical messiah, and an eccentric. 1 The links with industry of this Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of experimental therapeutics and immunology have, however, been largely neglected. Perhaps this was because commercial involvement was regarded as unseemly by historians, or because those ties were thought to be insignificant in...

Thomas G. Pickering: friend, colleague and scientist.

We, in common with many others, realized that with his passing, an era in hypertension research had also ended, and that it would be remiss of us and of ‘Blood Pressure Monitoring’ on which he served with us as a senior editor for so many years, if we did not pay tribute to his remarkable achievements. We acknowledge it as a tribute to the friendship and respect that Tom inspired across the wor...