March         Information theory: A guide in the investigation of disease J A Morris
June            The roots of ancient medicine: an historical outline B V Subbarayappa
September  Controversy in scienceM G Narasimhan
December   Where does our behaviour come from?Patrick Bateson

2002

March         Developmental mechanisms: putting genes in their placeStuart A Newman
June            Theoretical approaches to holistic biological features: Pattern formation, neural networks and the brain-mind relation Alfred Gierer
September  Chemical waves and fibrillating hearts: discovery by computationA T Winfree
December   A passion for plant lifeH Y Mohan Ram

March         Integrative microbiology -- the third Golden AgeMoselio Schaechter
June            Origin of the neutral and nearly neutral theories of evolutionTomoko Ohta
September  J D Bernal (1901--1971) in perspectiveAlan L Mackay
December   After DNA at the MRCAnand Sarabhai

2004

March         What impact, if any, has feminism had on science?Evelyn Fox Keller
June            Exploring germ-soma differentiation in VolvoxMarilyn M Kirk and David L Kirk
September  Human brain evolution, theories of innovation, and lessons from the history of technologyAlfred Gierer
December   Physical aspect of microscopic behaviour of biomoleculesRyuji Takaki

2005

March          From mice to men: the evolution of the large, complex human brainJon H Kaas
June             Nikolai I Vavilov (1887-1943)Ilya A Zakharov
September   A destiny to fulfillG P Talwar
December    N V Timofeeff-Ressovsky in Germany (July, 1925–September, 1945)Yakov G Rokityanskij

2006

March          Erwin Bünning (1906–1990): A centennial homageM K Chandrashekaran
June             Kenneth Raper, Elisha Mitchell and DictyosteliumEugene R Katz
September   The mobility principle: How I became a molecular biologistFrançois Gros
December     Adventures in physiology: The times and life of Autar S Paintal (1925–2004)Ashima Anand

2007

March         Beadle's progeny: Innocence rewarded, innocence lostRowland H Davi
June             Sources for Imanishi Kinji’s views of sociality and evolutionary outcomesPamela J Asquit
September   Peanut lectin crystallography and macromolecular structural studies in IndiaM Vijayan
December    Historical evidence for a pre-Columbian presence of Datura in the Old World and implications for a fi rst millennium transfer   from the New World R Geeta and Waleed Gharaibeh

2008

March           Biological time is fractal: Early events reverberate over a life timeDavid Lloyd
June              Joseph Hooker: a philosophical botanist Jim Endersby
September    A surgeon's questM S Valiathan
December      Getting hooked on thyroid hormone action: A semi-autobiographical account Jamshed R Tata

2009

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