François Bernel (1948-2013)

19 April 2013 − − François

François Jacob (1920–2013)

“Plus que jamais, la recherche me paraissait s’identifier à la nature humaine. En exprimer l’appétit, le désir de vivre. C’était bien le meilleur moyen trouvé par l’homme de braver le chaos de l’univers. De dominer la mort.” (More than ever, scientific research seemed to me to be intrinsic to human nature. It expressed the hunger, the desire to live. It has, in fact, been the best means found b...

Obituary: Roger Alan Brumback, MD (1948-2013).

Summarizing someone’s life work and achievements can be relatively straightforward, even for an individual as prolific as Roger Brumback. Placing their accomplishments into perspective and highlighting what is most meaningful among a lifetime of notable achievements are much more challenging tasks. Making sense of the terrible tragedy of 2 productive lives cut short, on the other hand, is impos...

19 April 2013 − − François Jacob . 17 June 1920

Günther Nürnberger January 13, 1948-May 11, 2013

Günther Nürnberger was born on January 13, 1948, near Marktredwitz, a little town in North Bavaria, Germany. In 1969 he matriculated in the university of Erlangen-Nürnberg and did there his diploma thesis in Functional Analysis in 1974. One year later he finished his doctoral thesis, both theses under the supervision of Dietrich Kölzow. In his thesis [1] he studied the problem of characterizati...