Hans Oeschger (1927-98)

Hans Arnold Heilbronn 1908-1975 Hans

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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Editorial Hans

European Journal of Information Systems (2008) 17, 555–556. doi:10.1057/ejis.2008.58 It is my pleasure to write the editorial for the last issue of this year of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS). This issue contains no less than nine papers. It is my privilege to introduce them below. We are starting off this issue with a paper from Thompson Teo and Bing Men on knowledge portal...

Marshall Nirenberg 1927–2010

of the true giants in the history of science. Marshall Nirenberg, the man who deciphered the genetic code, was taken from us by a rare neuroendocrine cancer. He was 82 years old. I was one of the many scientists who had the good fortune to be trained in Marshall's lab, to be exposed to his brilliance , to be instilled with his values, and to be inspired by his enthusiasm for the discovery of im...