A significant tribute

A Tribute to Late Professor Mahlagha Ghorbanli

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

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Susan Lindquist: a tribute

When I learned that Susan Lindquist had passed away at the age of 67 from cancer, my heart broke. This fierce flame for science and for women had been extinguished, and for a moment the world became a little dimmer. I first met Susan Lindquist in 1994 when I was a postdoc interviewing for a faculty position at the University of Chicago. Wemet for breakfast at a local diner.We talked about our s...

Ancel Keys: a tribute

Ancel Keys, Ph.D., who died in November, 2004, at the age of 100, was among the first scientists to recognize that human atherosclerosis is not an inevitable consequence of aging, and that a high-fat diet can be a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. During World War II, he and a group of talented co-workers at the University of Minnesota conducted a large-scale study of experimentally...

Enid Mumford: a tribute

In this edited article, we look at the many contributions of Enid Mumford: as a worker, teacher, colleague, researcher, but most of all as a human being, written by those who have been influenced by her, many of whom knowing her personally. Andrew Pettigrew first encountered Enid as an undergraduate, later becoming her first Research Fellow and then Enid supervised his PhD. His tribute introduc...