Hugh B. Lynn, M.D. (1914-2015)

Clubfoot: Etiology and Treatment Ignacio V. Ponseti, MD, 1914–

This biographical sketch of Ignacio V. Ponseti, MD, corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Congenital Club Foot: The Results of Treatment, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0720-2 and The Classic: Observations on Pathogenesis and Treatment of Congenital Clubfoot, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0721-1.

Herbert Spiegel, MD 1914-2009: art, science and poetry.

George B . Dantzig 1914 – 2005

Stanford News Service George B. Dantzig is well known as the father of linear programming. This “underestimates his paternal accomplishments” as is compellingly illustrated in the recent book [3] entitled The Basic George B. Dantzig. Dantzig made either fundamental or founding contributions in mathematical statistics, linear programming, network optimization, integer programming, nonlinear prog...

In Memoriam: Honorary Member Tomoyuki Shirai, MD, PhD, 1946–2015

An honorary member and the former president of the Japanese Society for Toxicologic Pathology, Doctor Tomoyuki Shirai, suddenly passed away from acute aortic dissection on November 19, 2015. For me, it is still difficult to find ways to manage my grief for his sudden and too early death with his seventieth birthday close at hand. On that day, Doctor Shirai attended the 46th International Sympos...

In Memoriam: Prof. Luka Kovacic, Md, Phd (1940 - 2015)

Luka Kovacic Luka, MD, PhD, passed away in Zagreb on April 21st, 2015. He was specialist in Social medicine and organization of health care. Luka Kovacic graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in the year 1965, and after a few years of medical practice he joined the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health in Zagreb. He earned both, MSc and PhD degree from the University of Zagreb Schoo...