Alan Baker, Fields Medallist, died on 4 February 2018 in Cambridge, England, after a severe stroke few days earlier. In 1970 he was awarded the Medal at International Congress Nice basis of his outstanding work linear forms logarithms and its consequences. Since then received many honours, including prestigious Adams Prize Cambridge University, election to Royal Society (1973) Academia Europeae...

Following hypophysectomy of the rat, partial involution occurs in the zymogenic cells of the stomach (Baker and Abrams, '54), parotid gland (Baker and Abrams, '55), pancreas (Baker and Pliske, '57) , submandibular gland (Lacassagne and Chamorro, '40 ; Grad and Leblond, '49) , and in the intestinal cells of Paneth (Baker, Kent and Pliske, in press). Insofar as they have been studied, enzyme synt...