Profile of Janet M. Thornton, F.R.S., Ph.D.

Profile of Janet Hemingway.

As the wheels of a biplane approach a desolate airfield in the Solomon Islands, a man wearing only a loincloth breaks through the brush, brandishing a spear and a flail. From behind the plane’s windows four biologists watch with wary eyes and silently map an escape route. “You’re thinking, ‘What am I supposed to do here?’” recalls Janet Hemingway, Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Me...

William Graeme Laver PhD, FRS (1929–2008)

After the Burnet School at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne changed its focus from influenza to immunology, the influenza research program moved with Frank Fenner's group to ANU, where it was anchored by Stephan Fazekas de St. Groth. There the pioneering influenza work of Sir MacFarlane Burnet continued, with Graeme Laver as biochemist and Stephan Fazekas as the mathematical mod...

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ducators who understand that schools are complex interdependent social systems can move their organizations forward. Unfortunately, many education leaders today fail to grasp the interconnectedness of these components, resulting in little or no progress. As such, many planned changes address only symptoms, not the underlying root causes, of the problems. Subsequently, meaningful improvements do...

Pioneers in cardiology: Salvador Moncada, MD, PhD, FRS.

J. Barry McKernan, MD, PhD—A Profile

Dr. Barry McKernan, who performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the United States, has followed a surgical trail that truly represents the spirit of the American surgeon. He completed his undergraduate studies at a time when American medicine, American surgery, and clinically related research were beginning their Golden Age. The interval was the mid 1960s. Medical students and gradu...