Aaron Lerner: A Mentor and Friend

Honoring Aaron Lerner

We are here today to celebrate a unique and distinguished man, Aaron B. Lerner. I have the privilege of opening these festivities by telling you something of Aaron, realizing full well that many of you know more about certain aspects of his life than I do, but relishing, nonetheless, this particular prerequisite of my position as dean. Aaron was born in 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was th...

Aaron B. Lerner, 1920-2007.

Lerner, called “The Bunsen Burner” by his high school classmates, was a scientist’s scientist. Born in 1921, he later took Bunsen as his middle name. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, both in 1945. In 1952, he moved to Oregon with his friend and colleague Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, who was the newly appointed head of the University of Oregon Medical School’s Div...

The Aaron B. Lerner Symposium. June 22, 1985.

To our mentor and friend, professor Solé-Balcells.

Glossing the career of Dr. Francesc-Xavier Solé-Balcells is not easy, but I will try to do it from the point of view of the quality that he has always shown in any of his contributions in over 60 years of practice of urology. He started in urology as a resident of Professor Antonio Puigvert in Spain which was very different from Spain now. He quickly became known for his scientific rigor, his c...

Herman Jan Phaff: professor, mentor, friend and colleague.

Herman Jan Phaff, the father of yeast ecology, was born in the Netherlands in 1913. In his early years, he spent much time in his family's winery, which sparked his interest in microbes. Trained in the famous Delft tradition, Phaff discovered many unrecognized ecological niches of yeast, such as shellfish, rabbit stomach, frass of bark beetles, tree exudates, cactus roots, Capri figs, sewage, D...