Dedication: Ofelia García

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C.A. García Canal ‡

An explicit analytic expression for the Landau distribution, related to the energy loss of a charged particle by ionization, is provided. The first mo-menta of the distribution are also given.

Luis García Ballester

The death of Luis Garcia Ballester while still at the height of his powers is a great loss to the world of medical history, not only in Spain. Born in Valencia into a Catalan family, he trained as a doctor, taking his MD in 1966 at Valencia. But already he was turning to a career in medical history, under the influence of J M Lopez Pifiero, with whom he collaborated from 1961 to 1971 during the...

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