Elected FRS 1976

FRS 1981 20 February 2004 : Elected − −

Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS: biomimetic studies at Oxford.

October 2005 has brought about the end of an era in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford. Almost two years since the doors of the Dyson Perrins (DP) Laboratory were closed to organic chemistry, the last Head of this renowned department has retired his chair. Professor Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS (Fig. 1), Wayneflete Professor of Organic Chemistry, joined Oxford in 1978, succeeding Sir Ewart ...

Working with C. S. Sherrington, 1918–24

Sir Charles Sherrington FRS (1857–1952) was one of the most notable neurophysiologists of the twentieth century. After studies in Cambridge and London, he became a lecturer in physiology at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, then Professor of Physiology at Liverpool in 1895, and then Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford (1913–35). His career focused on the structure and function of the nervou...

Fungal Rhinosinusitis: Study of Risk Factors, Outcome and Utility of Nasal Samples in Its Diagnosis

Background and Aim: Fungal rhinosinusitis (FRS) sets in following interactivity of fungi with Sino nasal tract when immune system is subdued. Due to varied clinical presentation of FRS with inconclusive evidence of imaging, mycological evaluation helps to identify and speciate the fungi .FRS can be diagnosed with biopsy tissue and/or deep nasal swabs. This study was undertaken to know risk fact...

The work of two Scottish medical graduates in the control of woolsorters' disease.

The Society held the Annual General Meeting and the subsequent Ordinary Meeting in the Hall of the Scottish Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain at 36 York Place, Edinburgh, on 26 October 1974. Appropriately, Mr. Charles G. Drummond, F.P.S., was elected president, the first pharmacist member to hold that office. The subsequent Ordinary Meeting was a joint one with members of th...