The idea of dedicating an IMPANGA volume to Friedrich Hirzebruch arose a few years ago. A lot has changed since then. First of all, Friedrich Hirzebruch passed away on May 27, 2012. Following his death many conferences, lectures and articles [2, 4, 3, 22] were dedicated to him. The articles [1, 5, 7, 9] and the video-interview [13] appeared while he was still alive. A book by Winfried Scharlau ...

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Meckel's name is well known in the medical world because of the intestinal abnormality that carries his eponym. We are less familiar with his personal life and his far-reaching achievement as a prominent anatomist. Also described is his complex personality as well as the indelible impression he made on his contemporaries.

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a physiologist known for his research on respiration and the respiratory quotient, experiments on the effects of electricity on muscles and nerves, and his study of the ovaries and eggs development. His experiments on how the gravitational orientation of frog [5] eggs affects their cleavage plane inspired embryologists such as Wilhelm Roux [6] and Gustav Bor...

=222 1 695. Gorton, Gary B. 2012. Misunderstanding Financial Crises : Why We Don't See Them Coming. Oxford,UK: Oxford University Press.Haase, Knut, Habib Zain Al Abideen, SalimAl-Bosta, Mathias Kasper, Matthes Koch, SvenMuller, and Dirk Helbing. 2016. "ImprovingPilgrim Safety during the Hajj: An Analytical andOperational Research Approach." Interfaces 46(1):74-90. Ha...