It is better to write an encomium than an obituary. There is no grief or regret. This will also give the subject the opportunity to protest in person all errors, omissions, and hyperbole. This is not, however, a pre-obituary. We look forward to working with Phil for many years. It will be necessarily brief and touch on only a few of his accomplishments. It will not include any anecdotes, especi...

The obituary is dedicated to the member of editorial board Russian Family Doctor Journal Professor S.L. Plavinsky.

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scientific biography of late prof. gerd alberti is presented.

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An obituary of Giovanni Cerri (1 October 1940-5 September 2021).

Martin Rodbell, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994, passed away 7 December 1998 after a long illness. Rodbell had a long and distinguished career in research and senior leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health. At different times in his career, he conducted research at the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Di...

and admired but few are loved. Th e avalanche of tributes and accolades that have fl ooded in since the tragic and premature death of David Bennett demonstrates the intense warmth and aff ection in which he was held. David qualifi ed from the Middlesex Hospital, London, in 1963. He spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in the pulmonary physiology lab at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore but otherwise wo...

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...

Anthony J. Pritchard was born on 5th March 1937 in Pontypridd in South Wales. Although most of his upbringing and all his school education was in Bristol, England, he always regarded himself as Welsh. This feeling was reinforced when, during his university days in London, he paired up for life with Buddug, who was born in the same year in Denbighshire, North Wales, and spoke Welsh fluently. He ...