Georges Darzen's name is absent from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. This is a regrettable omission, on three grounds. He was a creative organic chemist, to whom we owe both the thionyl chloride conversion of alcohols into chlorides and the "Darzens reaction"—an addition-fragmentation which can be seen as the forerunner to the Wittig reaction. He was a perceptive observer of the scienti...

(and, as significantly, so far ignored by historians). Historians of science and medicine who are not interested in the minutiae of the chemistry of life will, nevertheless, find the volume an extremely useful reference source. There are helpful names and subject indices and a generous 184 pages of bibliography. Such readers will particularly enjoy the three introductory chapters, partly drawn ...

FORSKOLIN-INDUCED CELL SHRINKAGE AND APICAL TRANSLOCATION OF FUNCTIONAL EGFP-HUMAN αENaC IN H441 LUNG EPITHELIAL CELL MONOLAYERS Alison M. Woollhead and Deborah L. Baines Division of Basic Medical Sciences; Ion Channels and Cell Signaling Centre, St. Georges’ University of London, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE, UK. Running title: EGFP-hαENaC expressed in human lung epithelial cells ...