Jürgen Sprekels turns sixty

Preface Jürgen Garloff

which are now called Bernstein polynomials, in order to present a short proof of the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem. The subsequent history is well documented, see, e.g., [29] for the period up to 1955, the monograph [18] published in 1953, and the survey article [9] which appeared on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the above paper by Bernstein. Since the latter publication prov...

Jürgen Roth: Immunogold master

G lycosylation, the synthesis of branched sugar chains on proteins, is a posttranslational modifi ca-tion commonly found on membrane and secretory proteins. Glycosylation is important for proper protein folding, and the composition of the sugar chains can also be used to track a glycoprotein's maturation. When Jürgen Roth started working on glycoproteins, researchers had only recently begun pro...

Jürgen Bohnemeyer* Demaximizing Grice?

9 Grice’s (1975, 1989) theory of conversational implicatures is one of the most 10 celebrated contributions of the 20th century to the philosophy of language, 11 linguistics, and the neighboring disciplines. Contemporary theorizing of the 12 relationship between language and logic arguably relies as much on it as on 13 the works of Frege and Montague. Almost from the moment a wider academic 14 ...

Farewell Prof. Hans‐Jürgen Rehm

It is a great honor and duty for me to remember Prof. Dr. Hans-J€ urgen Rehm, born on 3 December 1927, who passed away in M€ unster, Germany, on 4 February 2017. Since 1970, he was director of the Institute of Microbiology at the University of M€ unster, Germany, where I had the great honor to be his Diploma student and also did my PhD under his supervision. With his textbook ‘Industrielle Mikr...

Jürgen Kayser & Gisela Erdmann Report