In Memorium: Herman P. Schwan [1915–2005]

In Memorium: Herman P. Schwan [1915–2005]

Herman P. Schwan [1915-2005] was a distinguished scientist and engineer, and a founding father of the field of biomedical engineering. A man of integrity, Schwan influenced the lives of many, including his wife and children, and his many students and colleagues. Active in science until nearly the end of his life, he will be very much missed by his family and many colleagues.

Herman P. Schwan: a scientist and pioneer in biomedical engineering.

In Memorium: Thomas Hilker

Alexei I. Lyapustin 1,*, Nicholas. C. Coops 2, Forrest G. Hall 1, Compton J. Tucker 1, Piers J. Sellers 1, Lenio Soares Galvão 3, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão 3, Liana O. Anderson 3, Caroline J. Nichol 4 and Richard H. Waring 5 1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; [email protected] (F.G.H.); [email protected] (C.J.T.); [email protected] (P.J.S.) 2 Universit...

In Memorium of Dr. Bing Xia

turned his ward into his office in his latest hours. He was always available for his patients whenever they need him. He earned one national award and two Hubei provincial awards of sciences and technologies for the efforts in his beloved IBD research. He was also the awards receiver of the Distinguished Young Scholar and the Top Hundred Excellent Doctors of Hubei, as well as innumerable other ...

In Memorium: Swamy Laxminarayan [1939–2005]

Background: West Nile virus infection in humans in urban areas of the Midwestern United States has exhibited strong spatial clustering during epidemic years. We derived urban landscape classes from the physical and socio-economic factors hypothesized to be associated with West Nile Virus (WNV) transmission and compared those to human cases of illness in 2002 in Chicago and Detroit. The objectiv...