Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021

Jan van Mill

De Groot proved that every group is the autohomeomorphism group of some metrizable space. A space is totally disconnected if every connected subset of it contains at most one point. We prove that every separable metrizable totally disconnected topological group is topologically isomorphic to the autohomeomorphism group of some separable metrizable space, when given the compact-open topology. It...

Jan A . van Gils Matthijs van der Geest Jutta Leyrer

Obituary for Jan Valentyn van der Merwe

Professor Jan Valentyn Van der Merwe passed away on Friday, 25 September, at the age of 71. Prof Jan’s illustrious career began after he completed a research fellowship at Duke University in the USA, and returned to South Africa as Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Pretoria University. In this role, Prof Jan pioneered the establishment of an assisted reproduction unit in S...

Jan van der Noordaa (1934–2015);A Virologist Pur Sang

Our loyal friend and colleague, Jan van der Noordaa, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 80 on the evening of 17 June 2015. [...].

Jan van Rymsdyk, medical artist of the eighteenth century

phinische, Vormarz, Biedermeier) that are second nature to the Viennese, but unknown to almost everyone else. Occasionally, for example, when Lesky refers to Adolf Lorenz as "the father of our Nobel Prize winner, Konrad," one has the uneasy feeling that one is reading something intended for someone else. In any case, to appreciate fully Lesky's book, in addition to the history of medicine, one ...