A Tribute to Otto Rapp

A life devoted to aquatic ecology: a tribute to Otto Kinne.

Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Otto Kinne passed away at age 91 on 3 March 2015 in Oldendorf, Germany, after a prolonged period of deteriorating health. True to his spirit of hard work and independence, the driving forces throughout his long career, he did not go into well-deserved retirement but stayed until the end at the helm of Inter-Research: the highly successful, unique institution he founded in...

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

A Tribute to Jan

Returning to the University of Uppsala after 1 year in ON DECEMBER 1, 1996, the world lost one of this century’s giants in hematology. Jan Gosta WaldenMunich, he studied diseases associated with an elevation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Waldenström ström was born the son and grandson of physicians in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 17, 1906. During his long and distindescribed three...

A Tribute to Lep

After a comment on the performance of LEP some highlights of the LEP1 and LEP2 physics programmes are reviewed. The talk concentrates on the precision measurements at the Z resonance, two fermion production above the Z, W + W − production, ZZ production, indirect limits on the Higgs mass, LEP contributions to the exploration of the CKM matrix, and on the LEP measurements of αs.