Republication of The Journal of Physiology (2009) 587, 2855: Expressions of gratitude to The Journal of Physiology, to our colleagues and students, and to the fates that placed us in such a great time to be scientists

摘要

Torsten and I obviously feel it an immense honour to be celebrated in this way by The Journal of Physiology. It was there that we published our first papers, in many ways still our farourite ones. We found / Physiol a wonderful place to publish: among other things the figures were beautifully done, the reviews were always fair (i.e. laudatory). Our 1959 paper's submission was accepted by a letter, written we think by William Rushton, that began 'Congratulations upon a very fine paper...', and made no suggestions at all for changes. We were pleased because that paper had gone through 11 drafts and had even passed muster by Ed Furshpan, our fiercest critic. Above all, The Journal didn't follow the bizarre American style of ordering periods and closing quotation marks at ends of sentences. We hated to change journals, but felt forced to because at that time the strictly alphabetical order of authors' names in JP, though perhaps an advantage for me, was hard on Torsten. One could hardly expect Harvard deans or promotion committees to know the ways of the British. The problem came to a climax in the case of Ed Furshpan and Taro Furukawa, who had to change journals so Taro could get promoted in Japan.