Evelyn Lamb Interview

It Was Heaven: An Interview with Evelyn Witkin

Evelyn Witkin came of age at the dawn of bacterial genetics. In 1941 and with World War II looming, she began her PhD studies at Columbia University, and soon, with her very first experiment, she serendipitously cracked open a new field of research by discovering bacteria resistant to ultraviolet (UV) light. Witkin’s journey from UV resistance to DNA mutagenesis and repair spanned 50 years, tak...

Miss Evelyn Fox, C.B.E.

Evelyn Fox Memorial Fund

John Evelyn and medicine.

JOHN EvELYN has often been described as a virtuoso in the seventeenth-century meaning of that word, and if it be recalled that the Earl of Arundel, the greatest of the virtuosi was his patron, that Evelyn was a member of the Royal Society almost from its inception and a diligent attendant of its meetings, which at that time dealt with a wide variety of curiosa and technological as well as scien...

Marinel Gerritsen and Evelyn Wannet