G. EVELYN HUTCHINSON AWARD: CURTIS SUTTLE

The Art of Ecology, Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson

tein pathways) to result in a specific output (break down glycogen). Comparing a cell to a computer, as Dennis Bray does in the book Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell, yields a fascinating exploration into the complexity of a cell, yet shortchanges the cell and biological systems in general. The central argument of Wetware is that an individual cell contains thousands of enzymes, each pe...

Evelyn Witkin and Stephen Elledge share the 2015 Lasker Basic Medical Award.

How do cells cope with damage to genetic material? This year’s Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award honors two distinct leaders in the field, Evelyn Witkin and Stephen Elledge, for their groundbreaking work to answer this question and uncover the cellular responses to DNA damage (Figure 1). Early in her career, Witkin isolated strains of UV-resistant bacteria and subsequently played a piv...

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...