A Tribute to Gerald James Larson (1938–2019)

A CAD Tribute to Gerald Farin

Gerald Farin was born on March 20, 1953, and passed away on January 14, 2016. The authors of this note feel that his contributions to CAD and CAGD are so extensive andmultifaceted that they deserve this special ‘‘tribute’’. Correctly, R. Sarraga emphasizes (in Section 1) Gerald Farin’s great contribution to the development of the new scientific field of Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), w...

Gerald M. Siegel (1932–2014) – a tribute.

Gerald “Jerry” Siegel began his career with the people and places that shaped our field: Robert West, Oliver Bloodstein, endell Johnson, and Joe Spradlin, at Brooklyn College, the University of Iowa, and the University of Kansas. He then became n Assistant Professor in the fledgling Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Minnesota, in 1961, here he also held an adjunct appoi...

Sir James Lighthill and modern fluid mechanics: A memorial tribute

This memorial tribute commemorates Sir James Lighthill the man and the mathematical scientist. A brief biographical information is presented with my personal reminiscences. His major contributions to fluid mechanics with special reference to nonlinear dispersive waves are discussed. By any standards, his legacy of research and publications of six books and one hundred fifty papers will remain f...

A Tribute to Late Professor Mahlagha Ghorbanli

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

Membrane Science and Research: A Tribute to Professor Takeshi Matsuura