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Obituary: Professor Dr. Helmut Thiele (1926-2003)

To the great loss of the scienti)c community, Professor Helmut Thiele has passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully on Friday, January 10, 2003 in his home town of Cologne. He was born on June 20, 1926 in Saratoga. In 1946, he took up a profession as “Neulehrer”, a specially created position as school teacher with a short training, to make up for the lack of teachers after World War II. From 194...

Obituary for Dr .

It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of having lost on Friday September 6, 2013 a great friend, father, husband, scientist, mentor, symposium organizer, and a revolutionary intellectual thinker, who had a remarkable ability of addressing and describing fundamental problems in laser physics in new and enlightening ways. Although it is impossible to adequately capture the full exten...

Obituary: Professor Parvaneh Vossough

Obituary: Professor Howard Elcock*

Howard Elcock has passed away, aged 75, while at his holiday retreat in Tolo, Greece, in early summer 2017. He was Professor Emeritus of Government at Northumbria University, UK. He was educated at the Priory School for Boys, Shrewsbury and The Queen’s College Oxford, gaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1964 and a B Phil (now M Phil) in Politics in 1966. He took his MA in 1968...

Obituary: Professor Michael Argyle

Michael Argyle, who died aged 77 on September 6th, was one of the handful of British psychologists to have gained an international reputation. He was a pioneer in the scientific study of social behaviour. His research on interviews and conversations established that nonverbal rather than verbal communication dictate the impressions people make on others. So much is the primacy of ‘‘body languag...