Birthday celebration for STM

A birthday celebration for John S. Fordtran, MD.

O n November 15, 2011, a celebration was held for John S. Fordtran, MD (Figure 1), on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Th e event was initially suggested by Dr. Fordtran’s long-time colleague, Guenter Krejs, MD, who traveled to Dallas from Austria for the event. He was assisted by Charles Richardson, MD, and C. Richard Boland, MD. The celebration began on the evening of November 14, with a di...

Special Issue in Honour of Stan Azen: a Birthday Celebration

This special issue of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA) is dedicated to Dr. Stanley Azen, founding Editor and continuing Editor-in-Chief of CSDA for the past 20 years. The Special Issue consists of peer review papers from the Editorial Board members of CSDA. Dr. Azen has made innumerable contributions to biomedical research during his career as a researcher and educator. As a de...

In celebration: The 40th birthday of the Pill.

“The future is not likely to be dull”. This statement, made by the Family Planning Association (now known as fpa) in 19601 when it launched the first UK trial of the oral contraceptive pill, proved to be more than accurate! Four decades on from the introduction of ‘the Pill’ in 1961 (1960 in the US), history graphically illustrates how oral contraception not only revolutionised the field of bir...

Jean - Claude Risset : 70 th Birthday Celebration with Mari Kamura

A celebration of Horst Seidler on his sixtieth birthday.

Horst Seidler’s curriculum vitae reminds the anthropologist of the early descriptions of human evolution, or, better, it is like the classic »hero myth«. The brave warrior sets out on his journey, seeks and faces and masters challenges along the way, and triumphs at the end. The heroic saga is a parable for Seidler’s scientific career that touches on several aspects of his personality: a deep e...