Oh Editors, Hail and Farewell

Hail and Farewell

The editors' farewell and a confident look back to the future.

T he first issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) was published in January 1988 [1], 2 years before the birth of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) [2]. The ERJ was not an ex nihilo creation, neither was it a transformation from one single predecessor journal. Rather, the ERJ came to life from a remarkable joint effort of two distinct and yet complementary journals, namely the Bull...

Farewell

There is no difference between saying goodbye or see you later, because the content of what you say, and not the form, is what counts. One should be able to say goodbye to the people one loves. This is the final goodbye to a younger “older” sister who never stopped backing me up. I do not know whether to start from the beginning or the end, but the beginning and end have their meeting point and...

Hail suppression and society.

An interdisciplinary assessment of hail suppression in the past, present, and future has shown it to be currently scientifically uncertain but a potentially beneficial future technology. An established suppression technology would be widely adopted in the Great Plains, providing benefits to agriculture and secondarily to the American consumer. Development of a reliable technology will require a...

Farewell Wilfred

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of our friend and colleague, Wilfred Röling, on September 25th. Wilfred was a truly inspirational scholar active in a range of topics within environmental microbiology and microbial biotechnology, and was one of only a handful of researchers worldwide able to effectively combine wet and in silico science. The loss to scholarly endeavo...