André Bullinger (1941-2015)

Alfred Goodman Gilman (1941–2015)

On December 23, 2015, Alfred Goodman Gilman died peacefully at home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Though Al was one of the great scientific minds of the past 50 years and is best known for his discovery of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins), anyone who trained or worked closely with Al knew him as much more than that. His greatness extended equally to scie...

Bernard Witholt, 1941–2015: A Great Microbial Biotechnologist

Auxiliadora Prieto,1 Gerrit Eggink2 and Marcel Wubbolts3 Polymer Biotechnology Lab, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB), C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Wageningen University and Research Centre, AFSG, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. Royal DSM, CTO Office, Mauritslaan 49, 6129EL Urmond, The Netherlands. Bernard Witholt was appointed a professor of biochemistry at the Uni...

Teruhisa Kazui (18 May 1941-8 February 2015): a giant of aortic surgery.

Dr. Teruhisa Kazui passed away on 8 February 2015 in Sapporo, Japan, at the age of 73. He was born in mainland China on 18 May 1941. After World War II, he and his family moved to Sapporo, where he spent his school days until he graduated from the Sapporo Medical University (M.D.) in 1967. He passed the ECFMG exam while he was a medical student and spent a 1-year internship at the United States...

A conjecture of Yves André . ∗

The introduction to [2] (and references contained therein) contains a comprehensive exposition of terminology and notations relative to this conjecture. Since we use the same terminology and notations, we do not reproduce them here. The introduction to [2] also contains an exposition of results on this conjecture obtained before the article [3] came out. In this article we prove the following t...

François Bach and André Herbelin