Obituary for Norbert Peters

Norbert Perrimon

methods employed by Darwin alongside modern botanical survey techniques. Wildflower and conservation enthusiasts will be encouraged to help the survey and their findings will be collated and added to the Natural History Museum’s collections. They will be included in the botany collection soon to be housed in phase two of the Darwin Centre. This phase will provide new storage facilities to safeg...

Obituary for Dr .

It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of having lost on Friday September 6, 2013 a great friend, father, husband, scientist, mentor, symposium organizer, and a revolutionary intellectual thinker, who had a remarkable ability of addressing and describing fundamental problems in laser physics in new and enlightening ways. Although it is impossible to adequately capture the full exten...

Obituary

Norbert Wiener

T hrough the week of October 8–14, 1994, a conference entitled “The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium” was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The idea, of course, was to honor Norbert Wiener on this occasion and to review his contributions to mathematics, science, and engineering, but a deeper purpose was to bring out the significance of the interactions among the...

Profile of Norbert Perrimon.

As a child, one of Norbert Perrimon’s first introductions to the scientific method came from his father. Perrimon’s father was interested in geology. “Often we would go to various areas in Normandy, where I grew up, and collect different types of soils, rocks, and fossils. I always found it quite interesting to see how from the collection of different bits and pieces, you could draw complex geo...