Lennart Hansson, MD

Lennart Gram : A Personal Tribute

I was shocked to hear of Lennart’s recent, sudden, unexpected and tragic death. I knew him to have been ill, but had thought him to have recovered and to be well again. Perhaps it is because I was by training a psychiatrist, and therefore have knowledge of and empathy with the despair and hopelessness that leads to self destruction that I am particularly touched by his death and feel that in so...

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 ...

System Identification without Lennart Ljung: what would have been different?

This chapter presents a personal view on the development of identification theory in the control community, starting from the year 1965. We show how two landmark papers, (Ho and Kalman, 1965) and (Åström and Bohlin, 1965), gave birth to two main streams of research that have dominated the development of system identification over the last fourty years. The Ho-Kalman paper gave a first solution ...

, MD , PhD TONI BRANSFORD , MD , FACC

Lennart Green and the Modern Drama of Sleight of Hand

The broad purpose of this essay is to suggest an approach to sleight of hand magic, which looks at its social resonances as a dramatic medium. I outline a modern tradition of sleight of hand, that is a form of sleight of hand that was self-consciously described as modern by magicians. This tradition takes shape in the midto latenineteenth century, and its stylistic influence extends well into t...