Hans A. Panofsky’s Integral Similarity Function—At Fifty

Hans Thoenen: A Tribute

Hans Thoenen: 1928–2012 Hans Thoenen passed away on June 23, 2012, a fewmonths after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He left us grateful for what he had been able to accomplish in his life as scientist, but he was neither exuberant nor proud. Hans remained extraordinarily modest about his achievements—he felt far more comfortable by understating his contributions and never liked receiving com...

Hans Arnold Heilbronn 1908-1975 Hans

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

Recent studies have interpreted patterns of remotely sensed tree cover as evidence that forest with intermediate tree cover might be unstable in the tropics, as it will tip into either a closed forest or a more open savanna state. Here we show that across all continents the frequency of wildfires rises sharply as tree cover falls below ~40%. Using a simple empirical model, we hypothesize that t...

Hans Meinhardt

Hans Meinhardt is a theoretical developmental biologist working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. He has pioneered the use of mathematical modelling of embryonic pattern formation. He received his PhD from the University of Cologne in Physics. For a postdoctoral fellowship, he went to the European High Energy Laboratory CERN at Geneva. By collaborating in an exp...

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