Ernst Arne Høiby

Redox pioneer: Professor Arne Holmgren.

Dr. Arne Holmgren (Ph.D., 1968) is recognized here as a redox pioneer, because he has published at least one article on redox biology that has been cited over 1000 times and has published at least 10 articles, each cited over 100 times. He is widely known for his seminal discoveries and in-depth studies of thioredoxins, thioredoxin reductases, and glutaredoxins. Dr. Holmgren, active throughout ...

Arne Tiselius, 1902-1971.

Arne Ljungqvist: the great fighter against doping.

Professor emeritus Arne Ljungqvist from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, who has served in various high positions in the IOC, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Swedish Sports Confederation, to mention some of them, has dedicated a great deal of his life to service in sports and sports medicine. Arne Ljungqvist has especially dedicated his career to the fight against do...

Ernst Mayr, a retrospective.

During the late summer of 1979, Ernst Mayr and I (Figure 1) had finished editing The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology [1]. He knew that I was working on a long essay about Theodosius Dobzhansky and also planning a book about Sewall Wright. From his farm in Wilton, New Hampshire, Ernst handwrote me a letter (Figure 2) from which this excerpt is taken: ‘In your w...

In memoriam Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, who died on 3 February 2005 in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the age of 100+, was one of the major evolutionary scholars of our time. Mayr’s life was devoted to understanding the biodiversity of life and its dramatic adaptive evolution. His impact on evolutionary biology was profound and long lasting. He is wid...