Obituary: William F Cain, SJ (1937–2017)

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

Obituary: Marcel F. Neuts 1935-2014

MarcelNeuts died in his home inTucson,Arizona, on 9March 2014. Hewas born inBelgium on 21 February 1935, and received his school and undergraduate education in Belgium before moving to Stanford University for his Masters (1958–1959) and PhD (1959–1960), supervised by Samuel Karlin. His main academic appointments were at Purdue University (1962–1976), University of Delaware (1976–1985), and The ...

James F . Crow and William F . Dove

LUTHER Burbank was a curious mixture: part garStalin’s ear. He was arrested in 1940 while on a collecting trip and was sentenced to death, but this was rescinded dener, part artist, part P. T. Barnum. He was responsible for a plethora of improved fruits, vegetables, in June 1942. He died in prison in 1943. Had he been able to continue his program, he would surely have and ornamentals. Some of t...

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