THE SEASON'S HOPS, 1947

Ricardo Hector Asch (1947- )

Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of surgery, Miguel. Asch?s family middle-class family lived among the largest Jewish community in Latin America, where a majority of males were professionals. After his graduation from National College No. 3 Mariano Moreno in Buenos Aires, Asch worked as ...

The Seasons of Life

Eric Wieschaus (1947- )

Eric Wieschaus [4] studied how genes [5] cause fruit fly larvae to develop in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster [6], Wieschaus and colleague Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard [7] described genes [5] and gene products that help form the fruit fly body plan and establish the larval segments during embryogenesis [8]. This work ...

Heaps and Hops

This dissertation is about the specification and verification of copyless message-passing programs, a particular kind of concurrent programs that communicate by message passing. Instead of copying messages over channels, processes exchange pointers into a shared memory where the actual contents of messages are stored. Channels are themselves objects in the heap that can be communicated, thus ac...

Felix Frolow (1947–2014)

On 28 August 2014, the crystallographic community lost one of its most energetic, influential and beloved members with the passing of Felix Frolow. He was 67 years old. All who knew him throughout the years, either in person or through communicating with him, felt the pain of the loss. Felix Frolow was educated as a physicist, completing his Bachelor and MSc studies at the Gorky State Universit...