John Wesley "Wes" Tunnell, Jr. 1945 - 2018

John Paul Merlie (1945–1995)

John Merlie died suddenly and unexpectedly on May 27, 1995, of a heart attack. Hiswork on the regulation of neuromuscular synapse formation has had a major impact on the field, both in its breadth and in its accuracy. In fact, many feel that his most recent contributions and work soon to be published will be perhaps the most influential of his career. After earning a bachelor of science degree ...

Christopher John Ash 1945 – 1995

Christopher John Ash was born on 5 January 1945 at Gorleston, a seaside town adjoining Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He was an only child. His father, Kenneth William Ash, was the middle of three brothers. The elder brother was a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force who worked on rocket research and the younger was a Captain in the Merchant Navy. Chris’s father was Borough Engineer at Redc...

John Forbes Nash Jr . ( 1928 – 2015 )

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

Mathematicians as Great Economists : John Forbes Nash , Jr . Matthew

ly conceived, a two-person bargaining problem consists of a set of feasible contracts, with associated payoffs to each bargainer. As Edgeworth, von Neumann and Morgenstern, and others had observed, it is reasonable to suppose that the chosen contract will satisfy: • Efficiency: No other feasible contract offers both bargainers a higher payoff. However, this requirement typically leaves a large ...

John H. Gibbon, Jr., Lecture: leadership in medicine.