Editorial: Tribute to Eugene S. Simpson

Tribute to H. Eugene Stanley.

T issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B is dedicated to H. Eugene (Gene) Stanley, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Physics, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Physiology at Boston University. The scope of Gene Stanley’s research accomplishments is virtually unparalleled in the physical sciences. In more than 1000 publications, he has made groundbreaki...

President ’ s response to editorial

Overselling risk assessment I need to congratulate Roychowdhury & Adshead on a thought-provoking critique. Their arguments struck a chord in exposing the flaws in risk assessment tools and their unjust application in preventative detention; however, I was disappointed that they did not go further. All of these tools, structured clinical judgement included, apply populationderived data to indivi...

Tribute to Richard S. Laskin, MD, 1940–2008

Dr. Richard S. Laskin grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the first in his family to attend either college or medical school. He was a brilliant student and accelerated through college at Hofstra University, graduating in 1960, and then receiving his medical degree from New York University College of Medicine in 1964. He did his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He subsequently serve...

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A tribute to Arnold S. Relman (1923-2014).

Arnold Relman, one of the foremost public policy thinkers in American medicine and distinguished editor, died on June 17, 2014 from malignant melanoma. Relman, affectionately known as Bud (Figure 1), was a physician-scientist who began his research career at Boston University as a nephrologist studying patients with acid-base and electrolyte disturbances. He later became chair of the Department...