Professor Norbert Peters (1942--2015)

Remembering Professor David BenEzra, M.D., Ph.D., 1942–2008

David was my first Ph.D. student, joining my newly established lab in 1966 at the Hebrew University— Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. He was accepted at that time to the Medical School, after spending 1 year as a student in another Faculty. David was born in Morocco and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1956. The family settled in a small village and David had to commute daily to att...

Obituary: Professor Keith Rayner (1943–2015)

Keith was the world's leading expert in the study of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability to read in children and adults. In the 1970s, he pioneered the use of eye-tracking methodology in psychological research, which enabled the precise measurement and manipulation of read text with millisecond control. Through Keith's work, researchers can accurately predict how long an adult will ...

Professor Feng Pao Hsii (1936–2015).

Norbert Perrimon

methods employed by Darwin alongside modern botanical survey techniques. Wildflower and conservation enthusiasts will be encouraged to help the survey and their findings will be collated and added to the Natural History Museum’s collections. They will be included in the botany collection soon to be housed in phase two of the Darwin Centre. This phase will provide new storage facilities to safeg...

In Memoriam: Professor Laurentiu M. Popescu (1944-2015)

Like so many of those who had the chance to learn to know him, I was truly saddened by the all too soon and unexpected death of Laurentiu Mircea Popescu. This outstanding researcher, scientist and teacher influenced many, inspired his environment with his incredible energy, and never seized to follow his ideals to further our comprehension of molecular and cellular medicine. He was born on Apri...