Robert Hutchison 1938–2007

A hand list of the writings of Sir Robert Hutchison.

Sir Robert Hutchison has written and lectured and published books*, some in the best-seller class, for over 50 years. After working in chemistry and physiology and making some interesting researches into the thyroid gland, his arrival in London and in clinical medicine gave him the opportunity for which his qualities best suited him-of teaching. From the days in 1896 when in the residents' quar...

Reply to Hutchison and Loomis

the perceived distance to a target is influenced by the effort required to walk to its location. Hutchison and Loomis (H&L) reported an experiment that failed to find a significant influence of effort on indices of apparent distance. There were numerous important differences between the design and methods of H&L’s study and those of Proffitt et al. Moreover, there are important theoretical reas...

Surface resonances and sticking in the Hutchison model

It is shown that using the Hutchison prescription to account for inelastic effects on surface resonances can be partially justified when sticking is taken into account. The prescription is to multiply each elastic matrix element for collision with the repulsive potential by the appropriate ‘square root of the Debye–Waller factor’. It is shown that, under certain assumptions, it is correct to do...

Robert Insall

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

Robert Koch