Bengt Samuelsson, scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on prostaglandins – obituary
Among other functions, prostaglandins regulate circulation, body temperature, the transmission of nerve impulses and allergic reactions
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Among other functions, prostaglandins regulate circulation, body temperature, the transmission of nerve impulses and allergic reactions
The planes in the original mission had flown at 60 feet, but the director wanted Souter and co to go down to a ‘bloody dangerous’ 25 feet
It took him seven weeks to ice the cake for Queen Elizabeth’s golden wedding anniversary
He built a reputation for novelty bets and cheeky adverts, yet in Irish racing he was no upstart but a third-generation ‘king of the ring’
He singled out for criticism the German foreign minister, who had been ‘almost fanatical in his support for an independent Croatia’
‘We were told that we could not play any Tchaikovsky because the Chinese and the Russians were at loggerheads’
Their biggest hit, Stuck in the Middle with You, was famously used by Quentin Tarantino to accompany a torture scene in Reservoir Dogs
The navigator was awarded the DFC for ‘exemplary gallantry’ after his Mosquito crew sank one U-boat and seriously damaged another
As an unmarried Catholic mother in London in 1965, she said, ‘I honestly felt if I’d murdered someone it might have been more acceptable’
In Belfast his unflappable style suited what was at the time a wild and lawless situation
He cut his teeth on the family hit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Warren Beatty’s troubled comic-book throwback Dick Tracy
He came to public notice at the ‘sale of the century’ of his house Mentmore, when mid-auction he leapt up and fixed the wiring
At 16 years and 105 days he was Manchester United’s youngest debutant up till then, and he went on to win the FA Cup with Nottingham Forest
He shot cigarette ads in the Sixties but was turned on to gardening photography after taking pictures of Percy Thrower
He used his £60 demob pay cheque after the war to buy a car and start a taxi business
He ended the Second World War with 16 confirmed successes from 116 missions, miraculously avoiding any enemy fire or mechanical failure
He was a promising footballer who played in the Uefa Cup before devoting his life to crime
He robustly defended the centuries of careful Western scholarship that Said had denounced
She went on to become a dental nurse, founding the Dental Nurses Society, and taught yoga until she was 90
A formidable presence, he set stringently high standards but inspired loyalty and admiration