DR. G. B. Mathews, F.R.S

Dr. G. L. Foss

Dr. George Lush Foss who died on 11th February 1985 at the age of 76 years was not only a highly respected General Practitioner in Bristol but also a pioneer in the early days of Endocrinology and the problems of sub-fertility. Educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge he did his clinical training in Bristol where his father was a general practitioner in St. George. On the very day t...

Vaccination .B. C. G

This article was presented by the author at the Vaccination Seminar of May 26, 1972, National University Medical School.

Dr. A. M. G. Campbell

Dr. H. B. Kidd

Milstein C, Brownlee G G, Harrison T M & Mathews M B. A possible precursor of immunoglobulin lightchains. Nature (London) New Biol. 239:117-20, 1972

By the early 1970s, it became increasingly clear that to understand antibody diversity, it would be necessary to move beyond amino acid sequencing of myeloma proteins. We took the view that further understanding would come from structural studies of mRNA, at a time when sequencing of small transfer RNA was moving into larger entities, and when sequencing of DNA was not yet in the realm of possi...