Professor Sir T. W. Arnold

Professor C. W. Boeck

world generally. Wilhelm Boeck was born at Kongsberg in 1808, became a student in 1S27. Doctor in 1831; he was elected member of the Storthing in 1845 and Professor at the University in 1846. Boeck's name and scientific merits stand in special connexion witli his investigation of two of the most terrible forms of disease which have afflicted and still afflict the human race. Of one of these, Le...

Professor W. St. Clair Symmers, M.B

MHR celebration issue in tribute to Professor Sir Robert Edwards.

Bob Edwards died earlier this year and will be sadly missed by all those who knew him. Recognition of his outstanding contributions came rather late in his career but finally, in 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Bobs achievements have been widely documented on a number of different occasions. Amongst these he set upMolecular Human Reproduction (MHR) and as such w...

Professor Sir Raymond 'Bill' Hoffenberg: a celebration and thanksgiving.

The different names and titles Bill had are a way of revealing a variety of relationships. If one knew him from childhood, he was Billie. Army and university friends left off the diminutive; he was Bill, plain and simple. To his patients he was Dr Hoffenberg. To his students he was Hoff (not to his face) and Prof (to his face). To Professor was added, in due course, Dean and then President – ti...

Professor Sir Derek H. R. Barton and Heterocycles