Frank Twyman, 1876-1959

Alfred Newton Richards 1876-1966.

Mikael Passare ( 1959 – 2011 )

Mikael Passare was a brilliant mathematician who died much too early. In this chapter we present a sketch of his work and life. Mikael was born in Västerås, Sweden, on 1959 January 01, and pursued a fast and brilliant career as a mathematician. He started his studies at Uppsala University in the fall of 1976 while still a highschool student, merely seventeen and a half. He finished high school ...

Alan Wolffe (1959–2001)

Lab Chiefs in the history of the NIH. Alan Wolffe, an internationally recognized investigator The Laboratory of Molecular Embryology was quickly in chromatin research, died May 26 as a result of injuries organized with Alan’s characteristic vigor and intensity. suffered in a traffic accident in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil, He recruited a strong group of junior faculty, all of whom where he was atten...

Central-European Computers, 1959

and p r og r a mm ing of high-speed equipment should be developed, if t h e y can serve to make it a more efficient aid for manual r ou t i ne work and especially if it results in an aid for h a n d l i n g more models. As a basis for this en: deavor, there wil l undoubtedly be required at least a competent theory of computing machines, a competent theory of models, and a competent theory relat...

Frank Mittelbach

[Background of this unusual double interview: the Free Software Magazine (http:// www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) and the TEX Users Group (TUG) both like to publish interviews. By chance, Gianluca Pignalberi of FSM and Dave Walden of TUG both approached Frank Mittelbach about interviewing him around the same time. Rather than doing two separate interviews, Mittelbach, Pignalberi, and Walden decid...