FRANCIS HUXLEY (1923-2016)

Obituary for Walter Kohn (1923-2016)

Karlheinz Schwarz 1,*, Lu J. Sham 2, Ann E. Mattsson 3 and Matthias Scheffler 4,5 1 Institute for Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, A-1060 Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9/165, Austria 2 Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319, USA; [email protected] 3 Multi Scale Science, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322, USA; aematts@s...

Robert (Bob) Francis Leslie Logan (1917-2016)

Professor Robert Francis Leslie Logan, known to his colleagues as Bob, was professor of Organization of Health Care System at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He chaired Department of Community medicine when I studied LSHTM in 1981/1982 as postgraduate student. Professor Logan was an innovative teacher and very communicative person. Concerned that students might lack real...

Pope Francis at ESC Congress 2016.

The great Era of English Electrophysiology: from francis Gotch to Hodgkin and Huxley

The birth of electrochemistry in the second half of the nineteenth century gave an unexpected boost to electrophysiological research. The “membrane theory” elaborated at the beginning of the twentieth century by Julius Bernstein (1839-1917) represented a revolutionary turning-point in the understanding of bioelectric phenomena. As somewhat anticipated by Galvani with his hypothesis of “animal e...

Bernard Dwork 1923--1998

Bernard Morris Dwork, “Bernie” to those who had the privilege of knowing him, died on May 9, 1998, just weeks short of his seventyfifth birthday. He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Shirley; his three children, Andrew, Deborah, and Cynthia; his four granddaughters; his brothers Julius and Leo; and his sister, Elaine Chanley. We mention family early in this article, both because it was su...