Heinz Berendes, 1925-1999

Julian D. Cole (1925–1999), Volume 47, Number 4

466 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 47, NUMBER 4 The applied mathematics community suffered a great loss with the death of one of its leaders, Julian D. Cole, on April 17, 1999, at the age of 74. Julian was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 2, 1925. He received his B.S. in engineering from Cornell and his Ph.D. from Caltech, where he worked with Hans Liepmann. During his career he was a faculty me...

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George Klein: 1925-2016.

George Klein, famous cancer biologist and acclaimed writer on matters of science, human responsibility, and the human condition, decorated by innumerable awards, honorary doctorates and other honors, elected member of this Academy and many other learned societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and Member of the Nobel Assembly of Karolins...

Oliver Smithies (1925–2017)

Oliver Smithies Though some 25 years have passed, I can still recall the comfortable predictability of arriving at the lab on a weekend morning and finding Oliver Smithies at work, perhaps at his lab bench setting up a restriction digest in a 5 mL tube or in his office poring over a manuscript. Throughout most of Oliver’s scientific career, one could expect to find him in the lab most evenings ...

Joshua Lederberg 1925–2008

It is painful to start writing an article destined to be an Obituary for a dear friend and a great scientist. To describe Joshua Lederberg as a " polymath " would be an enormous understatement. He made seminal contributions to the fields of microbiology and molecular biology and also to artificial intelligence, organic chemistry, exobiology, and many other disciplines. Joshua Lederberg was born...