Mitchison

Shoots costing up to £4,000 a day per gun are in such demand that the number of keepers like 59-year-old Mitchison has risen by a quarter in the past decade.

Oh what a glorious day it is – except for the grouse 2010

"Nine out of 10 will be local, and they love it," says Mitchison.

Oh what a glorious day it is – except for the grouse 2010

Fred Mitchison has been up at 4. 30am for the past week, counting grouse at dawn, when the birds start scouring the grand moortops of Derbyshire's Peak District for food.

Oh what a glorious day it is – except for the grouse 2010

This year's award is to a single recipient, Gerhard Ertl, according to Andy Mitchison of Sceptical Chymist blog and an associate editor at Nature (link above) "one of the fathers of the area, famous for his seminal work on hydrogen adsorption to metal surfaces, the mechanism of the Haber-Bosch process and the oxidation of carbon monoxide on platinum".

October 2007 Maxine 2007

The Naomi Mitchison YAs set in Botswana look much more interesting.

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, the novelist Naomi Mitchison (a "silly sympathiser"), and J.B. Priestley all pursued very successful careers without, so far as we know, any hindrance from the British government.

Orwell's List 2003

Tolerance can be brought promptly and permanently to an end by an experimental device which combines certain principles established by N.A. Mitchison and M.W. Chase.

Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture 1964

"Looking back on Allston ... the mentality seemed to be 'if you build it, they will come,' and maybe we've in some sense moved back to a more rational plan," Mitchison said.

The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Elias J. Groll 2010

"We had an aggressive hiring plan," Mitchison said, referring to the period before last year's recession.

The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Elias J. Groll 2010

Mitchison G (1995) Maximum entropy weighting of aligned sequences of proteins or DNA.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009