William Campbell Root, 1904–1969

Surgn.-Genl. William Campbell Maclean

representative of the family known as the Macleans of Boreray (the first branch of the Macleans of Ardgour in Argyllshire) and had early in this century purchased the estate of Drimnin, in Morvern, on the Sound of Mull, from Macdonakl of Glenaladale. His mother was the youngest daughter of Donald Macleod, of Bernera, in the county of Inverness. The subject of this notice was their tenth child a...

William Campbell Maclean, professor of military medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 1861-1885.

He went to Edinburgh Medical School, then at the height of its fame as the most important in the world. He passed out as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons there in 1833 and graduated in medicine the next year. Having two brothers serving in the Bengal Army in India, he wanted to join the Army from a young age. His parents objected, as they did not think his health was strong enough ...

Presentation of the 2008 ASP Distinguished Service Award to William C. Campbell.

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

The Campbell Memorial Oration

TIERE is perhaps no literature dealing with specific disease addressed to the patient so voluminous as that on the subject of diabetes. This can probably be explained by the fact that there is no other disease in which the physician has to rely, to the same extent, upon self-treatment by the patient. Yet in spite of the plethora of books, this small volume, written by a certified dietitian, wil...