Frank A. Gotch: 1926-2017

Thomas Earl Starzl, MD, PhD (1926–2017): Father of Transplantation

Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, was known to most as the “Father of Transplantation”—he laid the groundwork for an entire new field of medicine. Throughout his career he continued to make among the most significant, landmark advancements, from technically describing and perfecting the many variations of liver surgery, including transplantation, to identifying better ways to control organ rejection, ...

Prof. Dr. Johannes Joseph van Rood (1926‐2017)

Jon was born on April 7, 1926 in Scheveningen, a town situated on the coast of the Netherlands. At the end of the Second World War, he began his medical studies at Leiden University. After finishing these, Jon was active as a ‘house doctor’, and visited many of his patients in the country areas. He considered this as one of the best medical learning experiences of his early career, as he was co...

A Personal Tribute to Frank A. Gotch and Lee W. Henderson, Giants in Dialysis and in Life.

membranes. My studies led to the conclusion that the sieving properties of a given membrane were dependent on the blood flow rate, wall shear rate, and protein concentration polarization at the blood-membrane interface. Lee spent an entire afternoon with me, analyzing the data and discussing the content of my research with humility and comprehension, treating me as his peer ( Fig. 1 ). We event...

Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, 23 June 1926-8 May 2017.

Profile of Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson, and Jacques Dubochet, 2017 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry.

In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three key pioneers in the birth and development of cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM): Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson. As a starting graduate student in England, moving from physics to biology and the study of macromolecular structure, I had the fortune of attending one of the early conferences in the, at the time, embr...