Joseph C. Gilman (1890-1966)

Sir Joseph Barcroft, Cambridge placental and fetal research (1933-1966) and inter-generational Science.

The nature of Cambridge (UK) placental and fetal research in the middle third of the twentieth century is reviewed on the basis of published literature and personal recollection. Joseph Barcroft is a central figure who came to fetal research late in an extremely productive career which is briefly sketched. Contemporaneous Cambridge academics in the field included J.D. Boyd (the authors father),...

Francis Gilman Blake 1887-1952

Packable Resin Composites Lieutenant Joseph C . Joyce

Introduction Increased demand by patients and clinicians for esthetic restorations coupled with the public’s concern about mercury have resulted in an escalating use of resin composite materials (1). Resin composite is now often utilized to restore tooth surfaces previously accomplished with silver amalgam. Packable (a.k.a. moldable or condensable) resin composites are the product of vast amoun...

Joseph C. Risser Sr., 1892–1982

This biographical sketch of Joseph C. Risser Sr. corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: The Iliac Apophysis: An Invaluable Sign in the Management of Scoliosis, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1096-z. Joseph C. Risser was born August 6, 1892, in Des Moines, Iowa. He earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1923 and served his residency at the New York Orthopedic Hospi...

Alfred Goodman Gilman (1941–2015)

On December 23, 2015, Alfred Goodman Gilman died peacefully at home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Though Al was one of the great scientific minds of the past 50 years and is best known for his discovery of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins), anyone who trained or worked closely with Al knew him as much more than that. His greatness extended equally to scie...