Anthony Michaelis 1916 - 2007

The Guardian has run a short obituary of Anthony Michaelis, who died in October. Paradoxically, Michaelis, who rumour had it travelled with his own hard hat, was known to most fellow science hacks as Tony. Why paradoxically? Because, as the Guardian's obituarist so accurately puts it "He was a scientist in the 19th-century understanding of that term". Very proper. But fun with it.