IN MEMORIAM. Paweł Chmielewski (1 IV 1946 – 25 VII 2013)

In Memoriam: Ahmed Hassan Zewail (1946–2016)

It is with great sorrow that we heard of the passing away of Ahmed H. Zewail, the father of Femtochemistry and the pioneer of ultrafast electron-based Science, on August 2, 2016. This represents a tremendous loss not only for the scientific community but also for humanity, as he was a real Statesman. In 1987, Ahmed Zewail published a short communication in the Journal of Chemical Physics that s...

In Memoriam: Jocelyn Anne Rankin (1946–2010)

J Anne Rankin, PhD, chief of the Information Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), died on September 19, 2010, at age 63 in her Florida home. Similar to the health professionals in the organization Médecins Sans Frontières, Jocelyn was a humanitarian and a librarian sans frontières. Although some make a difference by what they do, others, like Jocelyn, also make a diff...

In Memoriam: Honorary Member Tomoyuki Shirai, MD, PhD, 1946–2015

An honorary member and the former president of the Japanese Society for Toxicologic Pathology, Doctor Tomoyuki Shirai, suddenly passed away from acute aortic dissection on November 19, 2015. For me, it is still difficult to find ways to manage my grief for his sudden and too early death with his seventieth birthday close at hand. On that day, Doctor Shirai attended the 46th International Sympos...

In Memoriam: James Harlan Steele (1913–2013)

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 3, March 2014 J Steele, DVM, MPH, passed away on November 10, 2013, in Houston; he was 100 years old. Jim Steele was an extraordinary man. All of the dimensions of his life were on a grand scale. He was larger than life in so many ways; his vision, his leadership, his accomplishments in public health, his worldwide friendships, his m...

In memoriam: Alexander I. Klimov (1943-2013).