In Memoriam: Majorie Ruth Ferguson, 1929-99

In Memoriam: Francois Grémy (1929-2014)

permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. On July 22nd, 2014 passed away professor Francois Grémy. Professor Grémy had a dual curriculum vitae. In the domain of information sciences he completed three Master degrees in As a physician he passed the Paris resident fellows' competitive examination , the " In...

In Memoriam: Professor Dick Grimsdale 1929-2005

Dick was a quiet and modest man whose influence on computing and computer graphics runs deep. His early years at the University of Manchester involved him closely with the fast developing world of computer technology. Appointed to an assistant lectureship in 1951, during Tom Kilburn’s time at the helm, he moved on from improving the valve Manchester Mark II to create the world’s first transisto...

In Memoriam 
Robert Ellis Shope 
1929–2004

R Ellis Shope, one of the world’s most distinguished arbovirologists and a dear friend of many colleagues around the world, died of complications of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Galveston, Texas, on January 19, 2004, at age 74. Bob is survived by his wife, Virginia; his daughters, Deborah Shope and Bonnie (Shope) Rice; his sons, Peter and Steve; his brothers, Thomas and Richard; his sister,...

In Memoriam: Norton Zinder (1929–2012) Geneticist

Z inder, a superb geneticist (who also embraced biochemistry), died on February 3, 2012, following a long illness. He was 83. Zinder came of age at the dawn of microbial genetics. A prodigy with an eidetic memory, he was only 15 when he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, where he built his first incubator for growing bacteria (a 60-W light bulb in a box with a thermostat). After e...

In memoriam John J. Holland (1929-2013): a pioneer in molecular virology.