Bill Paton's principal career was in experimental pharmacology, and from his student days he was marked for distinction. He took first class honours at Oxford University and won gold medals during his clinical training at University College Hospital. He was a Reader at the age of 35, a Professor two years later, and a Fellow of the Royal Society before he was 40. He returned to Oxford as Profes...

551 Roger Wolcott Richardson was born on 30␣ May 1930 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was the eldest of the four sons of Roger Wolcott Richardson jr and Cora Johnson. His father was completing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the time of Richardson’s birth and subsequently devoted virtually his whole working life to a career as an executive with Standard Oil (later the Exxon Corporation). His y...

Charles H. Talbot, PhD, BD, BCL, died at his home in London on 13 September 1993 of a stroke at the age of eighty-seven. He was best known to medical history as a leading expert on medieval England. He also made notable contributions to the fields of Cistercian studies and the history of the Anglo-Saxon church. Born in Portsmouth in 1906, Charles Talbot received his education at Mundella School...