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Robert William Briggs (1911-1983)

Briggs was born 10 December 1911 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was raised by his grandparents, as both his mother and brother died of tuberculosis before Briggs was two years old. He lived with his grandparents until 1929 when he left for college. Briggs described his aunt's lessons on the family piano as one of his most lasting boyhood experiences. Even though he would eventually stop playin...

The contribution of Robert William Kerwin (1955-2007) to psychiatry in Brazil.

A contribuição de Robert William Kerwin (1955-2007) para a Psiquiatria brasileira Recently, the world scientific community and particularly our Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria (Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry) had a great loss: Professor Robert W. Kerwin, from Great Britain. Robert Kerwin’s career was full of singularities and brilliance. In 1979, he started his studies toward a PhD degree at...

Bernard Wood

Photo: Courtesy of Bill Kimbel. The benefit could also apply to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). While the mechanism by which the gene therapy triggers these beneficial effects remains to be elucidated, this unexpected finding suggests that even gene therapy for rare specific gene defects may in some cases have broader applicability. Recent developments have broadened the scope of gene ther...

Of mice and men: evolution and the socialist utopia. William Morris, H.G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw.

During the British socialist revival of the 1880s competing theories of evolution were central to disagreements about strategy for social change. In News from Nowhere (1891), William Morris had portrayed socialism as the result of Lamarckian processes, and imagined a non-Malthusian future. H.G. Wells, an enthusiastic admirer of Morris in the early days of the movement, became disillusioned as a...