On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Scott Taft wrote:

> I've been called "bonehead" and I had one supervisor
> in Denver call me "Bodian brain"  Still don't know
> which one I like the best.

 The latter can only be a compliment. David Bodian, who
 died a few years ago, was a distinguished scientist
 before he was 30, on account of his protargol method
 for axons (1936). He went on to do important work in
 comparative neuroanatomy and on the pathology of
 poliomyelitis.