Klaus Friedland (1920-2010)

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The identification of T cell growth factors (TCGF) t (1-3) has brought major progress to the study of T lymphocytes, allowing long-term tissue culture of selected T cells. Such lines can be cloned in vitro and kept functionally active as killer (2, 4-7) or helper cells (7-10), or cells showing antigen-specific proliferation (1 I, 12). The major drawback of the use of long-term culture lines, ho...

Klaus Hoedl

In Europe, Jews formed a distinct community within a Gentile environment for a long time. This was to change as the importance of religion within society declined. Jews gained—at least formally—the opportunity to integrate into society at large. However, this did not mean that they lost their purported otherness. Instead of religion, somatic features came to serve as criteria of Jewish differen...

Interview of Shmuel Friedland for the ILAS

A: When I went to Stanford as a postdoc, I realized that linear algebra and matrix theory were not what most people were interested in (laughter). Indeed, soon after I arrived at Stanford, Paul Cohen asked me what was the most important theorem in my field and I mentioned Perron–Frobenius Theorem. A few days later he told me that he proved it using a hint in Dunford–Schwartz [7]. So I looked ar...

Klaus Von Heusinger

Specific indefinite noun phrases are prototypically referential expressions, show wide scope, are presuppositional, and indicate discourse prominence or “noteworthiness”. However, not all specific indefinites show these properties. The existence of so-called “narrow scope specific” or “relative specific” indefinites demonstrates that specificity cannot be explained by the wide scope of specific...

Obituary: Klaus Biemann.