85th Birthday of Professor Gottfried Glöckner

Professor G. Leitmann on for 85th Birthday

George Leitmann was born in Vienna, Austria on May 24, 1925. He emigrated, with his mother and two grandmothers, to the USA in 1940. Leitmann entered a technical high school in New York from which he graduated in 1943. Immediately after graduation he joined the US army and served in the reconnaissance unit of a Combat Engineer Battalion in France in 1944-45. For his role in the battle for Colma...

EDITORIAL 65 th Birthday of Professor Hauptmann

Professor Vladimír Bencko Celebrates 80th Birthday.

Professor Bolesław Rutkowski's 70th birthday Laudatio

On 5 December 2014 Professor Bolesław Rutkowski, the outstanding Polish nephrologist, doctor and researcher, renowned organizer, our teacher, colleague and friend, will celebrate his 70th birthday. We would like to take this opportunity to present to you his life and his scientific achievements. Professor Bolesław Rutkowski was born into a family of intellectuals in Vilnius on 5 December 1944. ...

STABILITY OF EQUILIBRIA OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS Dedicated to Professor Peter D. Lax on the occasion of his 85th birthday

We provide an analytical study on the stability of equilibria of rigid rodlike nematic liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) governed by the Smoluchowski equation with the Maier-Saupe intermolecular potential. We simplify the expression of the free energy of an orientational distribution function of rodlike LCP molecules by properly selecting a coordinate system and then investigate its stability ...