EDITORIAL
60th anniversary of Thorax
Celebrating 60 years of Thorax
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor J A Wedzicha
Thorax Editorial Office, BMA House, London WC1E 6JE, UK; j.a.wedzicha@medsch.ucl.ac.uk
Keywords: Thorax
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The year 2006 is the 60th birthday and the Diamond Jubilee of Thorax, and I am delighted to welcome all our readers to this special edition of the journal to celebrate our successful 60 years.
About 6 months ago I raised the issue of this jubilee at one of our regular Thursday Editorial Committee meetings, and we decided that an insight into the way Thorax has developed and changed over the past 60 years would be interesting to our readers. I therefore decided to contact all the past medical editors of Thorax, with the exception of Guy Scadding (Editor 1946–1960) who had passed away, and I asked them for a contribution—either memories of their period of editorship or mention of landmark published papers that have considerably advanced our specialty. Within 24 hours of the letters being sent to the editors, I was surprised and
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