The psychiatrist and broadcaster Professor Anthony Clare died suddenly last Tuesday at the age of 64.

He became known to millions through his BBC Radio 4 show, In the Psychiatrist’s Chair, and his extensive media work.

He also wrote several popular books on psychiatry, and was professor of clinical psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin.

Hailed as having done as much to popularise psychiatry as anyone since Sigmund Freud, Professor Clare came to public prominence on Radio 4′s Stop the Week programme in the 1970s.

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The famous research chimpanzee has died aged 42. She passed away last Tuesday night. She died in bed surrounded by staff members and other primates who had been close to her

Washoe was born and captured in West Africa, briefly used for research by the US Air Force, and finally adopted by psychologists Beatrix and R. Allen Gardner, who raised her in their home and treated her like a deaf human child.

She was then adopted by Roger and Deborah Fouts, the directors of Central Washington University’s Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute. In her lifetime, Washoe mastered the use of more than 250 signs and even taught them to another chimpanzee.

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