William Joseph Thompson, 1932-2015

Thomas William Thompson

nature which gave to Thompson's work a value of its own. But not less necessary for this work, upon which Thompson and the Society were alike engaged, was his ability to consider his subject from every view-point; to state in exact proportion the evidence which told in favour of, or against, a hypothesis that had to be examined. There has passed into the hands of the Societ}' an unfinished piec...

William Robin Thompson, 1887-1972.

William Erwin Paul (1936-2015)

Legacy is defined as something handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor. The legacy of a great scientist includes not only their seminal work, but also the people they have mentored and inspired. Immunologist William Erwin Paul, who died on September 18 of this year, left just such a legacy. Bill Paul, as everyone knew him, was an extraordinary scientist, administrator, and...

By William C . Thompson , Laurence D . Mueller , and Dan E .

experts sometimes disagree about the interpretation and statistical characterization of test results. This article will describe the key controversies and will explain what lawyers need to know to recognize and deal with controversial types of DNA evidence. When labs try to “type” samples that contain too little DNA, or DNA that is too degraded, the results of the DNA test can be unreliable. Th...

In Memoriam William Martin Gelbart (1945-2015).

WILLIAMMartin Gelbart died Tuesday morning, August 11, 2015, after a valiantfightwith cancer. Bill was born September 11, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1971, working in the laboratory of Alan Fox. He did postdoctoral workwith Ed Lewis at California Institute of Techn...