Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

Frederick Sanger (1918–2013)

need financial support because both his mother and father had died when he was an undergraduate leaving him financially independent. As a Quaker and conscientious objector he was exempted from military service and could begin research immediately, even though the country was at war. He studied the metabolism of lysine under the direction of Albert Neuberger. Fred had a very high regard for Neub...

Sir James Lighthill and modern fluid mechanics: A memorial tribute

This memorial tribute commemorates Sir James Lighthill the man and the mathematical scientist. A brief biographical information is presented with my personal reminiscences. His major contributions to fluid mechanics with special reference to nonlinear dispersive waves are discussed. By any standards, his legacy of research and publications of six books and one hundred fifty papers will remain f...

In Memoriam Frederick J. Almgren Jr., 1933-1997

Fred Almgren was one of the founding editors of Experimental Mathematics. He remained an active editor until mid-1996, when he was found to have myelodysplasia, a form of bone marrow cancer. Subsequently, Fred underwent a risky but potentially eeective treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston: his old marrow cells were destroyed , and he received a marrow cell transplant. He was rele...

Would Fred Sanger Get Funded Today?

Fred Sanger developed technologies that won him two Nobel Prizes and revolutionized biological research. Yet, in spite of this record, the question has been raised as to whether, in the current scientific climate, he might be unsuccessful in obtaining a grant because of a productivity that would be viewed as too limited. In imagining how a National Institutes of Health study section today might...

BIO 337 Tuesday , Feb 18 2014