James Griesmer 1929--2011

Robert Killick-Kendrick (1929-2011)

Robert Killick-Kendrick est décédé le 22 octobre 2011 à Sumène, dans ce Pays cévenol où il avait choisi de se retirer après une longue vie de chercheur, initiée à l’âge de 17 ans au Département de biochimie du Ministère britannique de l’agriculture. Huit années au Nigeria, passées à étudier les trypanosomoses humaines et animales, devaient constituer le prologue d’une carrière consacrée à une p...

Lennart Philipson (1929–2011): A Warrior Has Passed

Lennart Philipson died on June 26, 2011. His passing is a great loss to the worldwide biomedical research community. He was a big man—physically, emotionally and operationally, dominating rooms, psyches and institutions. He was my wonderful friend, and when Lennart became your friend, it filled a big need in your life. Lennart was a Swedish virologist/microbiologist who earned both an MD and a ...

James Mackenzie Lecture 2011: multimorbidity, goal-oriented care, and equity.

Fisher Dynamics in Household Debt : The Case of the United States , 1929 - 2011

We examine the importance of what we term ‘Fisher dynamics’the mechanical effects of changes in interest rates, growth rates and inflation rates on debt levels independent of borrowing -for the evolution of household debt in the U.S. over a long time horizon (19292011). Adapting a standard decomposition of public debt to household sector debt, we show that these factors have been important in e...

My Memory of Walter Fitch (1929–2011) and Starting Molecular Biology and Evolution

More than 3 years have passed after Walter Fitch died on March 10, 2011. However, my memory of Walter is still fresh and vivid. From the time when he and I started this journal Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) in 1983, we had a close contact for about 15 years. He and I also started the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) in 1992. We had a common interest in the theoretical ...