Frank Charles Harrison 1870-1952

Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959)

A pioneer in experimental embryology [5], Ross Granville Harrison [4] made numerous discoveries that advanced biology. One of the most significant was his adaptation of the hanging drop method [6] from bacteriology to carry out the first tissue culture. This method allowed for further studies in embryology [5] as well as experimental improvements in oncology, virology, genetics, and a number of...

Ross Granville Harrison 1870-1959

Frank Charles Shrubsall

We greatly regret to record the death of Dr. Frank Shrubsall, Senior Medical Officer of the London County Council, which occurred on September 25th at his home in Hampstead, just after his return from holiday. Dr. Shrubsall was a Vice-President of the C.A.M.W. and for many years a member of its Education Committee. At the Medical Officers' Courses organised by the Association in conjunction wit...

Charles Frank Albert Marmoy 1909–2005

Microarray technology is currently one of the most widely-used technologies in biology. Many studies focus on inferring the function of an unknown gene from its co-expressed genes. Here, we are able to show that there are two types of positional artifacts in microarray data introducing spurious correlations between genes. First, we find that genes that are close on the microarray chips tend to ...

Maria Montessori (1870-1952): Women's emancipation, pedagogy and extra verbal communication.

Maria Montessori is one of the most well-known women in Italian history. Although she was the first woman who graduated in medicine in Italy, she is mostly known as an educator. Her teaching method--the Montessori Method- is still used worldwide--Because she could not speak English during the imprisonment in India, there was a big obstacle for her communication with children. However, the need ...