Jurij Fedynskyj (1912-1979): In Memoriam

Michael Abercrombie (1912-1979).

Michael Abercrombie 14 August 1912 to 28 May 1979.

In memoriam: Gabriel Ward Lasker (April 29, 1912-August 27, 2002).

Gabriel W. Lasker died on August 27, 2002 from complications of kidney disease. He was 90 years old. Lasker was one of the leading figures in anthropology after World War II. He helped create the population approach in biological anthropology, which rejected concepts of fixed racial typology in favor of variation and plasticity in adaptation. He developed the methodology of using family surname...

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...