In Memoriam: Pier Francesco Bortignon (1948–2018)

In memoriam Professor Ugo Efisio Francesco Carcassi

I am very sad to report the passing away of Professor Ugo E.F. Carcassi, a great man, internist, rheumatologist, and co-founder of the European integration of medical sciences. He passed away in his home city, Cagliari, on the 16th of May, 2016. Professor Ugo Efisio Francesco Carcassi was Sardinian; he was born in Cagliari on the 21st of August 1921. He was admitted to the Medical Faculty at th...

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

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...

Francesco Boato

Francesco Blast

Hog thyroid tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1, phenylpyruvate keto-enol isomerase), an enzyme which is believed to play a role in the biosynthesis of thyroxine, has been purified over lOOO-fold. The purification procedure involves a heat step at 70”, gel f&ration on Sephadex G-100, ion exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl Sephadex C-50, and, finally, gel titration on Sephadex G-50. The enzyme is homo...