A tribute to Robert Edwards and Howard Jones Jr

A Tribute to Professor H. G. Widdowson on the Occasion of his Visit to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, 2018

There are such great names in language studies as Noam Chomsky, Lev S. Vygotsky, Howard Gardener and Michael Halliday who are widely accredited with having introduced new concepts in linguistics and neighboring disciplines and to whom we remain deeply indebted. In this article which has been written on the occasion of Professor Henry Widdowson's visit in April 2018 to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani U...

Statistics and Applied Probability: A Tribute to Jeffrey J. Hunter

We are delighted to be associated as guest editors with the publication of this special issue of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, in honour of our esteemed colleague Professor Jeffrey J. Hunter. This special issue marks Jeff 's retirement from Massey University, although Jeff plans to continue his research. It also acknowledges Jeff 's many contributions to probability ...

Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1912-2005)

Georgeanna Seegar Jones [6] was a reproductive endocrinologist who created one of America?s most successful infertility [7] clinics and eventually, along with her husband Howard W. Jones, MD, performed the first in vitro [8] fertilization [9] in America, leading to the birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr. Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 6 July 1912. Her father, Dr. John King Beck Emory See...

Dr. Howard Jones, Jr. (1910-2015): In Memoriam

Dr. Howard as we knew him, along with his wife Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, were directors of the IVF team that helped establish the first America's " test-tube " baby who was born December, 1981, transforming reproductive medical science and propelling the field from a dream to reality. Their innovations have been the basis of an estimated over 6 million births worldwide through IVF. The impac...

Membrane Science and Engineering. A Tribute to the Prof. Drioli’s Pioneering Vision