Obituary: Pius Peter Kallaa, 1944-95

Obituary: Peter Laurberg

Peter Laurberg, Denmark, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, deceased unexpectedly on 20 June 2016. When walking by foot in Tiflis, Georgia together with his wife shortly after his 71st birthday, he was involved into a car accident. Whereas his wife survived, Peter Laurberg died. Peter Laurberg was worldwide one of the leading thyroidologi...

obituary: peter laurberg

Obituary - In Memoriam: Prof. Peter Hausen

We were deeply saddened by the news that our scientific mentor, Prof. Peter Hausen, passed away on May 28th of this year. Peter Hausen began his scientific career as a Ph.D. student with Werner Schäfer at the former Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Virology in Tübingen, completing his thesis on the molecular biology of the mouse encophalomyelitis virus in 1961. After a stay at the Weizmann Instit...

PIUS: Status and perspectives

Nuclear energy represents an important option for future energy supply, but the nuclear option could be jeopardized if severe reactor accidents, such as the ones at Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, were to continue to occur anywhere in the world. The PIUS (Process Inherent Ultimate Safety) reactor development effort is based on the conviction that future developments of nuclear energy for civili...

A Tribute to Peter H Seeburg (1944–2016): A Founding Father of Molecular Neurobiology

On 22nd August 2016, the fields of molecular neurobiology and endocrinology lost one of their pioneers and true giants, Peter Seeburg, who died aged 72, a day after his birthday. His funeral ceremony took place in Heidelberg where he had worked since 1988, first as a professor at the University of Heidelberg (ZMBH) and then since 1996 as a director of the Max Plank Institute (Department of Mole...