Charles Wagley: mentor and colleague

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...

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Meehl as colleague.

The author summarizes some memories and impressions of Paul Meehl as graduate advisor, classroom teacher, and departmental colleague.

Appreciating a Hiley Respected Colleague

One cannot sensibly introduce Basil Hiley’s work as a mathematical physicist without his collaboration with David Bohm, lasting from 1962, when Basil went to Birkbeck College, to Bohm’s death in 1992. The beginning of their careers shows an astonishing similarity in the study of collective phenomena—Bohm in plasmas, Basil in molecules. However, their topics changed drastically over time, and th...

Evangelos Anastassakis: Scientist, Colleague and Friend

I first met Evangelos at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 1969. Fred Pollak and I had started setting up a Raman laboratory at Brown University and, given Fred’s interest and experience in uniaxial stress techniques, we had decided to launch a program for measuring the effect of such stress on Raman phonons in solids, in particular semiconductors. We decided to begin with silicon. ...