Fred F. Kadlubar: In Memoriam (1946–2010)

Grover F. Powers. In memoriam.

There is a law of the conservation of energy or matter, and a law of the conservation of spirit. Grover Powers' immortality is in our transmission to students and their students and their students' students of the cultural heritage. he received from his forebears and preceptors and transmitted to us. Eloquent memorials have been presented* by Edward Wakeman and Herbert Miller before the Pediatr...

In memoriam: Stephen F. Lowry, MD, MBA.

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

Fred Chang

Fred grew up in California and studied biology and played the violin at Princeton as an undergraduate. He obtained an M.D. Ph.D. at UCSF, studying under the wise tutelage of the late Ira Herskowitz. As a graduate student, he played with budding yeast ‘shmoos’ and studied how yeast pheromones arrest the cell cycle. He then went to do postdoctoral stints with Paul Nurse in Oxford and London, and ...