Heinrich Egon Weber (1932-2020)

Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik

During their common time in Austria (and Germany), Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik knew each other quite well, meeting for professional interchange of their ideas and thoughts, which they mutually highly respected (compare the late autobiography by Heider, 1983). They both worked on problems of how the human being copes with his environment; later on (in the early 50s), they both were regarded a...

Johann Heinrich Dierbach (1788–1845)

his eighties. In 1835, he married and settled in Paris as a teacher at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, while conducting agricultural experiments with his brother-in-law on an estate in the Alsace, which was sustained economically by revenues from oil-bearing sands. Although McCosh's account of the collaboration with Dumas and the fat controversy with Liebig does not replace that given by...

Robin Holliday 1932–2014

Robin Holliday When the founder of a field of investigation departs from our midst, there is the palpable feeling among his or her close associates that an era has come to an end. Such is the sense that the elders of the field of genetic recombination feel with the passing of Robin Holliday, whose very name is synonymous with the process. Hediedathis homeon theoutskirtsofSydney, Australia, on t...

Op-brhe130268 1931..1932

We have known about the strong association between AS and the HLA-B*27 (B*27) gene for the past 40 years; however, the mechanism with which only some allomorphs of the HLA-B27 molecule, as well as some other HLA class I molecules, are involved in the occurrence of SpAs is still unclear [1]. In this issue of Rheumatology, Cauli et al. [2] present data that may aid our understanding of this mecha...

Otto Heinrich Warburg, 1883-1970.