James Learmonth Gowans

Immunologist and science administrator. He was born in Sheffield, UK, on May 7, 1924, and died in Oxford, UK, on April 1, 2020, aged 95 years. In a distinguished research career, Sir James Gowans's notable achievement was to pinpoint the central role of the lymphocyte in the immune response. In so doing, he became one of the scientists who opened the way to a fuller understanding of immunity. It therefore came as a great surprise—and, to his...