The Huxley Memorial

The Huxley Lecture

Huxley: the devil's disciple

Ever since Leonard Huxley published his father's Life and letters (1900) and P Chalmers Mitchell wrote Thomas Henry Huxley (1900), there has been a steady production of Huxley biographies-one a decade, on average. Most of these are cast in the mould of a traditional historiography, hailing Huxley as the courageous, truth-seeking champion of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selec...

Memorial of Joseph Murray

It has not been too long since we realized that Joseph Murray (1919-2012) has passed away while we heard this sad news 2 weeks ago. We never forget his memories and trip for the first time on 14th November 1974to Iran. He returned to our country one more time later to share his experiences with the country specialists. It is a great sorrow that he did not see our progress in plastic and reconst...

Minimizing the Hodgkin-Huxley Model

Memristor (memory resistor) is a passive electrical circuit element whose instantaneous resistance depends not only on the voltage, but the history of the current applied to it. The first memristor was fabricated in 2008 by the HP labs in a semiconductor titanium-dioxide thin film. Apart from its potential for high-density memory storage, the electrical properties of a memristor share similarit...

The Lewis Memorial

world ; and it was by the outcome of his work that, if we mistake not, he himself would have wished to be represented to those whom he left behind him?the workers and thinkers of the present and future generations. We have received the handsome volume containing his physiological and pathological researches as he himself wrote and published them. The collection forms a handsome quarto volume of...