Richard A. Lockshin

FOR THE HOLIDAYS==>

FOR TEACHERS: HOW SCIENCE IS DONE, HOW IT DEVELOPED, AND HOW SCIENTISTS THINK: BORN THIS WAY 1 (EVOLUTION AND NATURAL SELECTION) AND BORN THIS WAY 2 (THE RISE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY).

FOR CELL BIOLOGISTS AND LIFE SCIENTISTS: 20 YEARS OF CELL DEATH (17 REVIEWS BY EXPERTS IN APOPTOSIS, AUTOPHAGY, AND OTHER FORMS OF CELL DEATH)

Just out: Programmed Cell Death 50 (and beyond) http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/cdd.2015.126 An 8-page article commenting on history of field

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Dr. Lockshin taught at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and at St. John's University, retiring from a professorship in 2010. He was educated at Harvard, where, although he toyed with majoring in poetry, his doctoral thesis, "Programmed Cell Death in an Insect," became one of the founding papers in a biomedical field that now boasts 250,000 publications. He has authored or co-authored approximately 200 papers and 8 books, including the first on cell death in 1981 and several well-received reviews after that. As a teacher, he realized that arts students frequently feared science, failing to appreciate that its logic and methodology was very similar to the logic of everyday life. He wrote "The Joy of Science" to address and teach that issue. For his students, he pointed out that the logic was straightforward and easy to grasp, and that multiple fields of inquiry, including sciences, history, and geography, interacted and nourished each other. He chose the topic of evolution as an illustration because it was the most important idea of the 19th C, because it clearly illustrated the cultural, historical, and scientific trends that coalesced into the theory, and because the theory (as well as the term 'theory' was frequently misunderstood. He is described in Wikipedia(r).