Dedication to Dr. Willem J. Kolff

Willem J. Kolff: a great man.

Willem Kolff, often called the father of the artificial kidney, died in January 2009, 3 days before his 98th birthday. During his long life he received numerous honors and accolades for his work. Many people thought he should have received the Nobel Prize, but as he once said himself, they do not honor people who build mouse traps. Yet because of the mouse traps he built, almost one million peo...

Dedication to Dr Cornelis Bas

Kees Bas, born in Rotterdam, graduated in Biology at Leiden University in 1954, and started his life-long career at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, University Leiden branch (then Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus) in 1953 as curator for the fungi, in particular of the Agaricales. In the first period of his career he played a leading role, together with his colleague Rudi Maas Geesteran...

Presentation to Dr. J. G. Swayne

In October last Dr. Swayne terminated his active work at the school, having occupied the post of Lecturer on Midwifery for fifty years, and the occasion seemed a fitting one for emphasising such a remarkably long and eminent service by some token of regard and esteem. A committee, consisting of Mr. J. Paul Bush, Dr. J. Michell Clarke, Dr. A. J. Harrison, Dr. E. Markham Skerritt, and Dr. R. Shin...

Dr J. W. Ballantyne

Dr. J. Tylor Fox

Although Superintendent of Lingfield Colony for 30 years, Dr. Fox was always firm in his belief that colony life was only essential for a minority of patients, and even for them that it should only be regarded as a period for stabilization and drug adjustment. It was one of his greatest satisfactions that the last 10 or 15 years showed such startling changes in drug therapy. He often said that ...