Overview Viswa or Vishwa Gupta was an Indian geologist and palaeontologist based at Punjab University who co-authored hundreds of papers, wrote several widely used books and was a star of Indian Geology in the 1970s and 1980s. He specialised in the fossil record of the Himalayan region and was regarded as one the leading experts…
Overview Heslop Harrison was an eminent English professor of botany who was based in Newcastle in the middle years of the twentieth century and who sired a mini-dynasty of other eminent biologists. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society as was one of his sons; a very unusual occurrence. He cultivated plants which were…
The protein gap – nutritional science’s biggest error Sayan Puangkham/Shutterstock Geoff Webb, University of East London In the three decades following World War II it became an almost universal belief of nutritional scientists that protein deficiency was the most serious and widespread dietary deficiency in the world. Improving protein nutrition became a high priority for…
Overview Paul Kammerer was an Austrian biologist and expert on amphibians (herpetologist) who in September 1926 shot himself in the head 6 weeks after being accused in an article in Nature of faking one of his most important specimens. This was just before he was due to take up a senior scientific post in the…
