Born in Belém, State of Pará, Brazil, he already demonstrated a special affection to insects during his childhood. At the end of his secondary studies, he worked as a technician for the National Department of Rural Endemic Diseases, the institution responsible for combating vectors in Brazil and the precursor of the Superintendence of Public Health Campaigns (SUCAM, a Brazilian public instituti...

Correspondence to Dr Alberto Costa; [email protected] Umberto Veronesi passed away on 8 November, after an entire life dedicated to the fight against cancer, to surgery, to advocacy and to research. He died in peace, fading away with his unique and unforgettable smile, at home in Milan, the city where he was born almost 91 years ago. His death marks the end of an era. Umberto was the first t...

Copyright © 2014, Research Institute For Endocrine Sciences and Iran Endocrine Society; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A highly respected, renowned academician of his generat...

some would say its father-fi gure. Dr Max Harry Weil (Figure 1) played such a major role in the development of intensive care medicine as we know it today, making numerous contributions that have shaped the way in which we approach and manage critically ill patients. Born in Switzerland, Dr Weil reached the US when he was just 10. He obtained his MD degree in New York in 1952, a PhD degree from...

Hans Meinhardt, a pioneer in the field of theoretical biology, died on 11 February 2016 in Tübingen. He made numerous important contributions to developmental biology by spearheading the use of mathematical models to investigate the logic of patterning in complex biological systems. His work expanded our understanding of the mechanisms behind diverse biological processes, from the generation of...

Colleagues active in the Joint University Council (JUC) and in its Public Administration Committee (PAC) will be sad to hear of the death on 25 May 2017 of Professor Christine A. Bellamy. Professor Bellamy was the chair of the JUC between 1998 and 2002. She also chaired its PAC between 1993 and 1996. For her service, the JUC gave Chris the exceptional honour of a lifetime honorary fellowship. D...

A remarkable mathematician, one of the most prominent specialists in the theory of dynamical systems and bifurcation theory, a laureate of the Lyapunov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Lavrent’ev Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a Humboldt Professor, Head of the Department of Differential Equations of the Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Cybe...

Obituary: Charles Benedict Davenport: DR. OSCAR RIDDLE. Leroy Sheldon Palmer: DR. CORNELIA KENNEDY. Deaths and Memorials .................. 441 Scientific Events: The Hall of Mexican and Central American Archeology of 'the American Museum of Natural History; The Munsell Foundation to Promote Color Standardization; The North Carolina State College Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi; Election...

Concerning the versions of the Tenseless Theory of Time, the Old B-theory has two: the Date-analysis version and the Token-reflexive version, while the New B-theory has three: the Date-analysis, the Token-reflexive and the Sentencetype versions. Each of these five versions of the B-theory has received serious attacks from the A-theorists, some of whom even claim that the tenseless theory “thoug...