Gerald Vinten: A Remembrance

Gerald Grace

The death of Mr. Gerald Grace took place in South Africa as the result of a singularly tragic incident on Sept. 17th. For some time the Witwatersrand had been terrorised by a band of desperadoes. Mr. Grace was travelling on the Witwatersrand reef in a motor-car resembling that in which the gang was believed to be escaping. The police challenged the car, but, according to the account in the Rand...

In remembrance.

“John was an inspiring teacher and experimentalist. His educational passion was creating hands-on experiments built from ordinary parts you can find at any hardware store, what he lovingly called ‘mulch,’” said MIT senior lecturer in physics, and former King student, Peter Dourmashkin ’76 (physics), ’78 (math), PhD ’84. “He was MITx before MITx.” King was born in London and educated in France, ...

Leo Szilard: a personal remembrance.

SINCE retiring as a full-time faculty member about ment of this building. Their plan was to study mutation in bacteria, and they looked for methods to measure 10 years ago, I have occupied myself with writing chronicles of past experiences. The first was an account mutation rates. At Cold Spring Harbor they had encountered Jacques of the advances made in the elucidation of gene expression and i...

Gerald Sommer

Gerald Klatskin

At a time of celebration of one of American medicine's great men, it is appropriate to try to capture the essence of his being as seen by his students-past, present, and perpetual. When we, his former Fellows, think of Gerry Klatskin, we really do not focus on his obvious great productivity as a clinical investigator, his myriads of papers and textbook chapters, his dozens of honors and awards ...