Sir Samuel Wilks: A Founding Father of Clinical Science

Sir Samuel Wilks ( 1824 – 1911 ) : ‘ The Most Philosophical of English Physicians ’

This paper retells some of the achievements and personal attributes of Sir Samuel Wilks, one of the great Guy’s Hospital physicians and neurologists of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. A prolific author and original observer of clinical and pathological diseases...

Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911): 'the most philosophical of english physicians'.

This paper retells some of the achievements and personal attributes of Sir Samuel Wilks, one of the great Guy's Hospital physicians and neurologists of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. A prolific author and original observer of clinical and pathological diseases...

Samuel Wilks: the "grand old man" of British medicine.

Alexander Samoylov: Founding father of Russian electrophysiology.

Alexander Samoylov (Fig. 1) was born on 27 March, 1867, in Odessa. After completing gymnasium school, he began at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics in Novorossiisk University, but before graduating changed his mind in favor of medicine. He enrolled in the medical faculty at the University of Derpt (now Tartu) and graduated in 1892 as a Doctor of Medicine. In the same year, in St. Petersbur...

Founding father of clarivate analytics’ web of science, Dr. Eugene Garfield dies at 91

A pioneer in the field of citation indexing and analysis, Garfield made a lasting impact on scientific, medical and scholarly research. Feb. 27, 2017/PRNewswire/ Clarivate Analytics marks the passing of one if its founding fathers, Dr. Eugene Garfield, and gives thanks for his contributions to information science in the service of scientific and scholarly research. A pioneer in the practice of ...