Obituary: Walter Benz (1931–2017)

Obituary: Hans-Walter Bandemer (1932-2009)

Professor Hans-Walter Bandemer died on 15th November 2009, aged 77 in his home-town Halle (Saale). He was one of the most creative statisticians of the former German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.), as well as the reunified Germany. He can be considered as the father of the theory of optimal experimental design for Germany, and later, starting in the 1980s, he was one of the most active and popula...

Obituary for Walter Kohn (1923-2016)

Karlheinz Schwarz 1,*, Lu J. Sham 2, Ann E. Mattsson 3 and Matthias Scheffler 4,5 1 Institute for Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, A-1060 Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9/165, Austria 2 Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319, USA; [email protected] 3 Multi Scale Science, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322, USA; aematts@s...

Obituary: Walter Fitch and the orthology paradigm

Walter M. Fitch, a towering giant of molecular evolution, passed away on 10 March 2011. His pivotal contributions to the field are manifold, diverse and profound. He developed some of the first algorithms and practical methods for phylogenetic tree construction; pioneered statistical approaches in sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis; introduced the covarion approach in the study of ge...

Obituary: Walter J. Gehring (1939-2014).

Alex Schier looks back at the life and research of his graduate mentor and friend Walter Gehring.

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