Kanner opens his pioneering 1943 paper on autism by making a mysterious mention of the year 1938. Recent letters to the editor of this journal have disagreed over a particular interpretation-does 1938 refer to an early paper by Asperger, effectively meaning Kanner plagiarised Asperger? I argue 1938 refers to a paper by Louise Despert. This was not plagiarism but a case of building on Despert's ...

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The cancer research community suffered an enormous loss with the death of Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos on December 1, 2014, at the age of 75. Dimitrios was the Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at theHarvard School of Public Health (now theHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), and a past chair of Epidemiology at the School. He was an outs...

Emily Carota Orne, wife of the late Martin T. Orne and his companion in research for almost 40 years, passed away on August 1, 2016, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Emily Orne was born in Boston on September 7, 1938, to Ruth Farrell Carota and Emil Carota. As an undergraduate at Bennington College, she did a fieldwork term at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, which brought her into co...

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