Dr. Lauri "Tupu" Saxen died last October (2005) at the age of 78. He was a physician, a scientist, a photographer, a naturalist, a great story-teller and a man who enjoyed science enormously. His name has become synonymous with the Finnish school of Developmental Biology, a school that focuses on reciprocal inductive interactions during vertebrate organogenesis. But many biologists probably don...

Our dear colleague and friend Lowell Langille died on October 29, 2008 at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. We will miss Lowell’s leadership in our department and in the world of vascular biology and atherosclerosis. Lowell was held in very high regard by all of us, and not the least by his many trainees. We appreciated his enthusiasm for science, his persistence in asking and answering re...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 3, March 2014 J Steele, DVM, MPH, passed away on November 10, 2013, in Houston; he was 100 years old. Jim Steele was an extraordinary man. All of the dimensions of his life were on a grand scale. He was larger than life in so many ways; his vision, his leadership, his accomplishments in public health, his worldwide friendships, his m...

J Anne Rankin, PhD, chief of the Information Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), died on September 19, 2010, at age 63 in her Florida home. Similar to the health professionals in the organization Médecins Sans Frontières, Jocelyn was a humanitarian and a librarian sans frontières. Although some make a difference by what they do, others, like Jocelyn, also make a diff...

On October IS, 1959, Leopold Fejér died in Budapest, Hungary. For the past half century Fejér was a central figure of the international mathematical community and a leading personality of his native country. He had many pupils scattered all over the world and many friends and admirers in all countries where mathematics is at home. His profound influence was due not only to his deep and fundamen...

El nombre Juan le venía muy bien al doctor Cárdenas dado que su significado: "el Señor es misericordioso", bien puede describir la principal virtud de este hombre que hoy recordamos con cariño, por haber sido un buen hombre, un buen amigo y un buen médico. En cuanto a su apellido derivado de la palabra cardo que es una planta con espinas y también con flores, esasímismo descriptivo de esa perso...

Unfortunately on May 14th, 2015 our colleague and friend Assa Reichert lost his battle against his difficult disease. Assa, Reichert, our very long time member of Board and Council of European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), was our a true friend. He devoted to his family, his country, his friends, his profession and EFMI, IMIA and Medical informatics, generally. As Medical informati...

W e remember our valued colleague and friend, Nils-Georg Asp, professor emeritus in Applied Nutrition at Lund University and the former executive director of the Swedish Nutrition Foundation, with deep affection. Nils-Georg died on June 1, 2012, after a long brave fight against cancer. He is deeply missed by his wife Marianne, his four daughters and their families, as well as by many colleagues...

JERE MEAD did something very unusual. He established a whole new field of research. Respiratory Mechanics was his invention. Sure, there had been sporadic forays into the field beforehand, but nothing systematic. He created, developed, nurtured, and maintained this field while stimulating thousands of scientists from around the world to join him on his remarkable voyage of discovery. The luckie...

R Ellis Shope, one of the world’s most distinguished arbovirologists and a dear friend of many colleagues around the world, died of complications of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Galveston, Texas, on January 19, 2004, at age 74. Bob is survived by his wife, Virginia; his daughters, Deborah Shope and Bonnie (Shope) Rice; his sons, Peter and Steve; his brothers, Thomas and Richard; his sister,...