To the 90th Birthday of Petro Ivanovych Fomin (1930–2011)

HAPPY “90th” BIRTHDAY

IVF and embryo transfer for the treatment of human infertility has now resulted in the birth of over 4 million babies. The technique did not arise as a quantum event but was built on the efforts of many earlier workers in the fields of reproductive endocrinology and development. One should remember the famous saying of Isaac Newton: ‘If I have seen further than most, it is because I have stood ...

Karl Rickels: a tribute on his 90th birthday.

In his 2011 autobiography, A Serendipitous Life [1] , Karl Rickels describes how in 2008 in Munich at the 50th anniversary of the Collegium Internationale NeuroPharmacologicum (CINP) he looked around at the President’s Dinner, ‘... a special event held in the Emperor’s Hall at the residence of Bavaria’s famous king. I saw only one person I remembered from the first congress in Rome. I had been ...

Dedication to Professor Stella Niemierko on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

Homology rigidity of Grassmannians Dedicated to Professor Wenjun Wu on his 90th birthday

Applying the theory of Gröbner basis to the Schubert presentation for the cohomology of Grassmannians [DZ1], we extend the homology rigidity results known for the classical Grassmanians to the exceptional cases. 2000 Mathematics subject classification: 55S37

A TRIBUTE TO Professor Christian de Duve on his 90th birthday

Molecular Medicine is an appropriate stage for a tribute to Professor C. de Duve on his 90 birthday. Indeed, the work of Christian de Duve led to an explosion in cell biology, with the discovery of lysosomes and peroxisomes and of their function. From the deciphering of the physiopathology of lysosomes followed the first molecular explanation of an intracellular genetic disorder, Pompe’s glycog...