scholarly journals Alan William Cuthbert. 7 May 1932—27 August 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
J. Michael Edwardson
Keyword(s):  
Ion Transport ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Channel Density ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Transport Defect ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Distal Section ◽  
Breaking Work

Alan Cuthbert carried out ground-breaking work on epithelial ion transport. He used radiolabelled amiloride and benzamil to measure the sodium channel density in epithelia from frog skin and toad bladder, tissues that are good models for the distal section of the mammalian kidney tubule. This work shed important new light on how the properties of these channels are modified by hormones such as aldosterone and antidiuretic hormone, and increased our understanding of how diuretics affect kidney function. Later, he focused on the ion transport deficits that underlie cystic fibrosis (CF), and was a member of the team that showed that the ion transport defect could be corrected in CF transgenic mice by gene therapy. Alan was Sheild Professor of Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge from 1979 until his retirement in 1999. During this time he was instrumental in moving the Department from the Addenbrooke's Hospital site to a new building in the centre of town. He was also Master of Fitzwilliam College from 1991 until 1999. Alan made major contributions to pharmacology nationally and internationally, serving as chairman of the editorial board of the British Journal of Pharmacology for eight years, and as President of the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies for two years. In recognition of his contributions to the subject, the British Pharmacological Society awarded him their Wellcome Gold Medal in 2005. After his retirement, he continued his research in the Department of Medicine, pursuing novel pharmacological approaches to the treatment of CF.

I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1916 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
John Edward Marr
Keyword(s):  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The subject of the present memoir occupies a distinguished position as lecturer and teacher of our science in the University of Cambridge, one which he has held for more than thirty years, and he is well known among geologists generally as a high authority on the Palæozoic rocks, his writings being recorded in the “Quarterly Journal” of the Geological Society (of which Society he has filled the offices both of Secretary and President). His name has also frequently appeared as the author of important papers in the GeologicalMagazink and other works.

scholarly journals The long road to Megalopolis

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Luca Muscarà
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The author is associate professor of geography at the Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy; and teaches at the GIS Masteřs Program of the Università di Roma La Sapienza. He holds a doctorate in political geography from the Università di Trieste (1998) and is dottore in lettere at the Università di Venezia (1985). He was a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles (2000, 2001) and is a member of the editorial board of Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, based in Paris, and co-editor of Sistema Terra. He focused his research on the life and work of Jean Gottmann and is writing a book on the subject.

scholarly journals Developing students' ideas of diversity in the ancient and modern worlds through the topic of Alexandria in the Cambridge Latin Course, Book II

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Barnes
Keyword(s):  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

My interest in undertaking a study relating to Classics and issues of diversity in the classroom is the result of several personal and circumstantial approaches to the subject, which have become more pronounced in my mind since the start of my Postgraduate Certificate of Education at the University of Cambridge.

scholarly journals Frederic Charles Bartlett, 1886-1969

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Frederic Charles Bartlett was the first Professor of Experimental Psychology in the University of Cambridge. As such he exerted a crucial influence over the development of the subject throughout the whole country: his students staffed the newer departments which have since arisen, and his approach has coloured all subsequent research in England. His role in the subject was therefore unique.

Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an Anglo-Saxon settlement discovered by air reconnaissance

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. S. St Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Made In

Crop-marks revealing an archaeological site at Sprouston (NT 758362), Roxburghshire, the subject of this paper, were observed and photographed from the air on 22 July 1964, but the character of the site did not become evident until further observations were made in August 1970. In the flying programmes of the Committee for Aerial Photography of the University of Cambridge Sprouston has been photographed from the air on fourteen subsequent occasions. The vertical and oblique photographs, III in all, in the University Collection, together with oblique photographs taken during the last few years by staff of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for Scotland, are the sole source of information about the site. No trace of any of the features to be described is ordinarily visible on the surface, as is only too apparent from walking over the ground.

scholarly journals Derek William Moore. 19 April 1931 — 15 July 2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
J. T. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Goddard Space Flight Center ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

Derek Moore was born in South Shields and studied at the local grammar school, from which he gained an Exhibition to Jesus College, Cambridge. However, before going to Cambridge he did his National Service in the Royal Air Force and was stationed in Yorkshire, where one of his fellow personnel was the poet Ted Hughes. He entered Jesus College in 1951, studying for the Mathematical Tripos, which he gained in 1954, and for Part III, which he gained in 1955. He then became a research student in applied mathematics and theoretical fluid mechanics under the supervision of Dr Ian Proudman and was awarded a PhD degree of the University of Cambridge in 1958. Thereafter he held positions at the University of Bristol, the Goddard Space Flight Center, New York, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Imperial College, London, where he spent the major part of his career. He became distinguished for the Moore-Spiegel oscillator and the Moore singularity. Moreover he had a strong interest in jazz, which is the subject of an appreciation by Peter Batten.

scholarly journals "Indian" geopolitics: Unity in diversity or diversity of unity?

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (422/423) ◽  
pp. 327-339
Author(s):  
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Keyword(s):  
Polar Regions ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
British India ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
International Programme ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The University

The author, a Leverhulme Fellow of the University of Cambridge , England, is the Chairman of the Department of Political Science and the Co-ordinator of the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His research interest is the theory and practices of geopolitics, with special reference to polar regions, the Indian Ocean and South Asia. He is the author of Polar Regions: A Political Geography (Wiley, 1996) and co-editor of the forthcoming Rethinking Boundaries: Geopolitics, Identities and Sustainability (Delhi, Manohar). He has contributed articles to several refereed journals including Third World Quarterly, Journal of Social and Economic Geography, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. More recently, he has been a Fellow at Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall, and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, under the International Programme of Advanced Studies (IPAS), researching on the role of "excessive" geopolitics in the partition of British India. Dr Chaturvedi serves on the international editorial board of Geopolitics, a journal published by Frank Cass, London.

John Charles Fields, 1863 - 1932

1933 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Keyword(s):  
Gold Medal ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

John Charles Fields was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 14, 1863, and died in Toronto on August 9, 1932. He was elected Fellow in 1913. His father (John Charles Fields) and his mother (Harriet Bowes) were both Canadians. The former was a merchant of Hamilton, and in the course of his business travelled extensively in the British Isles and Continental Europe. The father died when Fields was eleven years old and his mother when he was eighteen. He attended Hamilton Collegiate Institute, where he showed marked ability, taking a number of scholarships. He matriculated at the University of Toronto in 1880 and took his B.A. degree in 1884, with the gold medal in mathematics, after a distinguished undergraduate career. He then went to Johns Hopkins University to pursue graduate studies, and remained there until 1889, taking his Ph.D. degree in 1887, the subject of his dissertation being that of No. 7 in the list of publications given below. In 1889 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Allegheny College; he resigned this position in 1892 in order to pursue further studies.

scholarly journals Some Aspects of Meningococcal Virulence: A Report to The Medical Research Council on Work Carried Out at the University of Cambridge Field Laboratories

1923 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. D. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

“Virulence” is an ill-defined term and its use frequently gives rise to disputes, which remain unresolved because the disputants have no common basis other than that the term applies to organisms which cause disease. Thus it is imperative that the writer clearly defines the meaning of the term virulence as used in this paper, that the issue may not be confused by the reader approaching the subject from a different point of view.

Gregory Maxwell Kelly 1930 - 2007

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Ross Street
Keyword(s):  
Category Theory ◽  
New South ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Pure Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Discipline ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Gregory Maxwell (?Max') Kelly (1930?2007) was educated at the University of Sydney (BSc 1951 with First Class Honours, University Medal for Mathematics, Barker Prize, and James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship) and the University of Cambridge (BA 1953 with First Class Honours and two Wright's Prizes; Rayleigh Prize, 1955; PhD 1957). He returned to Australia as Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sydney in 1957, became Senior Lecturer in 1961 and Reader in 1965. He was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics first at the University of New South Wales in 1967 then at the University of Sydney in 1973, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1994. He introduced the mathematical discipline of category theory to Australia and continued active and influential research in the subject until the day of his death.

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