Personal Reflections on Studying Royce after Curry

Personal reflections on twentieth century vaccinology.

The science of vaccinology was created in the late 18th and 19th centuries by "giants" of the time including Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, von Behring, Ehrlich and Lister. Relatively little technologic advance was made in the period leading to World War II except for yellow fever and influenza vaccines. Support for war efforts fueled developments which led to the modern era of vaccines of 1950 onwards...

Personal reflections on the "animal-rights" phenomenon.

Personal Reflections on James S. Hyde

In honor of Dr. James S. Hyde’s contributions to the field of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fcMRI), we, the current and former graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty colleagues, and academic friends, dedicate this two-issue special Festschrift publication series to him. We begin this publicatio...

Personal reflections on the neuropathology of kuru

My involvement with kuru began towards the end of 1963 while I was a Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During the autumn of that year I was contacted by Dr Michael Alpers, who was on his way to Boston from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland with a carload of New Guinean artefacts to be delivered to the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts on behalf...

Personal reflections on an unintentional behavioral scientist

It is unlikely that prior to reaching age 40 János Aczél anticipated any challenging questions about functional equations arising from the behavioral and social sciences. Yet, increasingly, behavioral and social scientists have come up with difficult equations. To be sure, the earliest equations we encountered were largely familiar and were covered in his treatise (Aczél (1961, 1966)). But some...