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Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

Professor Mirko D Grmek, historian of science and medicine, died in Paris on 6 March 2000 aged seventy-six, at the end of a long and trying disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. "Crossing the borders" can be taken as the motto of his life and work. Without ever losing his cultural and personal roots, he was ready to widen and expand his interests and subjects of work. Of Croatian origin, he b...

Lynn Margulis, 1938-2011.

O n November 22, 2011, Lynn Margulis, visionary biologist and tireless champion of the microbial world, died of a massive stroke. Born in 1938, Lynn was intellectually precocious, earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago at age 18 and a Berkeley PhD 6 years later. Lynn’s enduring place in science was earned soon thereafter, with the publication of her theory of endosymbiosis...

Hans Meinhardt (1938–2016)

The famous theoretical biologist Hans Meinhardt died on 11 February 2016 in Tübingen. Meinhardt is well known for mathematical models of biological pattern formation, which he applied to a wide range of problems in developmental biology such as body axis formation, segmentation, limb patterning, regeneration, phyllotaxis and surface patterns — most famously the color patterns on seashells. Hans...

Jeq50456 1924..1938

Todetermine useful metrics for assessing streamwater quality in the Southeastern Coastal Plain, we examined differences among two buffered and three unbuffered streams in an agricultural landscape in southwestern Georgia. Potential indicators included amphibian diversity and abundance, aquatic macroinvertebrate populations, riparian vegetative structure, water quality, and stream physical param...

In memoriam. Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).