Special issue dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nankai University

MEMORIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF LATE UNIV. – PROF. DR. KARL HEINZ RECHINGER

Karl Heinz Rechinger was born on October 16, 1906 at Vienna (Austria). He was the only son of Dr. Karl Rechinger and Rosa Elisabeth Rechinger née Favarger. His father was also a plant taxonomist. The principal focus of K.H. Rechinger was flora writing. He was the author of Flora Aegaea and founder and editor of "Flora Iranica". In 1929, Rechinger started to work as an unpaid volunteer in the De...

ON SYMMETRY IN MODERN PHYSICS (Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician V.A.Fock)

The development of the gauge symmetry has resulted in a complete determination of the Lagrangians for electromagnetic, weak, strong and gravitational interactions and has created illusions about the construction of ®the theory of everything ̄. However, in just the same way as in classical physics, it became clear that the deductive obtaining of solutions (laws of Nature) is based not only on the...

Special issue dedicated to ICFP 2010

50th Anniversary special issue of vision research

The inaugural issue of Vision Research was published, with little fanfare, in June 1961 – 50 years ago. In the Preface, Thorn Shipley wrote: ‘‘The lack of a special journal in this field has been found to be increasingly awkward. Vision Research is therefore planned directly to fill this gap. However, it is not intended to encourage the isolation of the eye from the other senses, neither in its...

From collodion bag to skid-mounted pervaporation unit: 100th anniversary

Let’s commemorate the 100th anniversary of “pervaporation” by committing ourselves to position it as it deserves. Dear editor, this Submission is a letter to the Editor, and thus, a abstract does not apply.Therefore, this section will be used as a space for my comment or suggestion because it is needed for the next step. When we submit a letter to the editor,...