In memoriam Marie-Thérèse Jones-Davies

Marie T. Filbin: In Memoriam

Marie T. Filbin: 1955–2014 Marie T. Filbin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Hunter College in New York City, died on January 15, 2014 while visiting her family in Ireland. Following some early breakthrough work on the biochemistry of peripheral myelination, Marie’s most significant scientific contributions were in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the inhibition of axonal g...

Dr. Howard Jones, Jr. (1910-2015): In Memoriam

Dr. Howard as we knew him, along with his wife Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, were directors of the IVF team that helped establish the first America's " test-tube " baby who was born December, 1981, transforming reproductive medical science and propelling the field from a dream to reality. Their innovations have been the basis of an estimated over 6 million births worldwide through IVF. The impac...

Appl . Environ . Microbiol . Marie - Thérèse Adeline , Denis Faure and Yves Dessaux

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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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...