Profesor dr Stanisław Wóycicki (1897–1970). Wspomnienie pośmiertne [Obituary Professor Stanisław Wóycicki 1897–1970]

Professor Stanisław Wolfarth, Ph.D., M.D. (1933-2007).

OBITUARY Biography of Professor Stanis³aw Wolfarth, an excellent scientist and honorable man, is a history of a man, who despite very difficult beginning of his career, achieved great success in his life being a self-made man. He accomplished this owning to his talent and hard work, and most of all, to strong character and passion for knowledge. in Gostyñ, a small town in the Poznañskie region,...

Obituary: Professor Dr. Helmut Thiele (1926-2003)

To the great loss of the scienti)c community, Professor Helmut Thiele has passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully on Friday, January 10, 2003 in his home town of Cologne. He was born on June 20, 1926 in Saratoga. In 1946, he took up a profession as “Neulehrer”, a specially created position as school teacher with a short training, to make up for the lack of teachers after World War II. From 194...

From eugenics to lysenkoism: the evolution of Stanisław Skowron.

This article describes the relationship between Polish geneticist Stanisław Skowron's views on eugenics during the interwar period, his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and his response to Trofim D. Lysenko's ban on genetic research in Soviet-allied states after 1948. Skowron was educated at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and received funding from the Rockefel...

Obituary: Professor Parvaneh Vossough

Obituary: Professor Howard Elcock*

Howard Elcock has passed away, aged 75, while at his holiday retreat in Tolo, Greece, in early summer 2017. He was Professor Emeritus of Government at Northumbria University, UK. He was educated at the Priory School for Boys, Shrewsbury and The Queen’s College Oxford, gaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1964 and a B Phil (now M Phil) in Politics in 1966. He took his MA in 1968...