George Lindor Brown, 1903-1971

George Wells Beadle (1903-1989)

George Wells Beadle [3] studied corn, fruit flies, and funguses in the US during the twentieth century. These studies helped Beadle earn the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [4]. Beadle shared the prize with Edward Tatum for their discovery that genes [5] help regulate chemical processes in and between cells. This finding, initially termed the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, helped sc...

George Wells Beadle - 23 October 1903--9 June 1989.

Aristotle and George Spencer-Brown

The paper deals with Aristotelian logic as the special case of more general epistemology and sociology of both science and common sense. The Aristotelian principles of identity, of noncontradiction, and of excluded middle are to be supplemented by the secondorder cybernetic, or "cybernethic" principles of paradox, of ambivalence, and of control. In this paper we collect some ideas on how to eva...

Environmental extremes: origins, consequences and amelioration in humans.

Professor Sir George Lindor Brown (1903-1971) is known for his pioneering research into cholinergic neuromuscular transmission. However, during World War II he worked in hyperbaric physiology, and his research into underwater physiology greatly improved the safety of divers. It is perhaps fitting, therefore, that this review, which accompanies the Physiological Society's G. L. Brown Prize Lectu...

James F . Crow and William F . Dove A Centennial : George W . Beadle , 1903 – 1989

GEORGE BEADLE was a quadruple-threat man— Keim, stayed on for several additional months. At that time he was interested in ecology, and his first publicascientist, teacher, administrator, and public citizen. He excelled in each. Furthermore, he did what tion dealt with pasture grasses (Beadle 1927). He loved the rural life and originally expected to be a farmer. He very few geneticists did in h...