Judith Rapoport, psychiatrist who raised awareness of obsessive-compulsive disorder – obituary
There is, as Judith Rapoport acknowledged, a little bit of OCD in most people. Who has not gone…
Michael Bishop, Nobel-winning microbiologist whose work led to gene-targeted cancer drugs – obituary
​Michael Bishop, who has died aged 90, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold…
Biruté Galdikas, Louis Leakey protégée who became the world’s foremost expert on orangutans – obituary
Alongside her studies of orangutans living in the wild, she established Camp Leakey as a care and rehabilitation…
Michael Bishop, microbiologist who shared Nobel Prize for work on cancer – obituary
Michael Bishop, who has died aged 90, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold Varmus…
Dame Carole Jordan, astrophysicist who studied ‘cool stars’ and the outer layer of the Sun – obituary
She was born on July 19 1941, to Reginald Jordan and Ethel, née Waller. From Harrow County Grammar…
Sir Anthony Leggett, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his research into superfluids – obituary
Explaining how the unwieldy Helium-3 atoms combined with each other posed a much harder challenge for theoretical physics,…
Sir Nick White, authority on tropical diseases who transformed the treatment of malaria – obituary
Professor Sir Nick White, who has died of cancer aged 74, was an expert on tropical diseases and…