In Memoriam: Professor Wiesław Boryś (1939–2021) This article is an obituary of Boryś, who died on 29 November 2021. He was a full professor and he worked at the Institute Slavic Studies, Polish Academy Sciences for many years.Wspomnienie o Profesorze Wiesławie Borysiu Nekrolog jest osobistym wspomnieniem autorki WiesławieBorysiu zmarłym listopada 2021 roku – profesorze zwyczajnym, wieloletnim ...

Este texto toma la trayectoria vital y académica de su autor como referencia para comprender introspectivamente los caminos transformación intelectual, con el objetivo alcanzar algún grado aceptable conocimiento disciplinar sobre nos(otros). Pero, ante todo, pretende rendir un homenaje in memoriam hacia maestro que le mostró, durante más dos décadas, senderos del saber antropológico, sendas que...

ANNA THERESA COSSLETT, The "scientific movement" and Victorian literature, Brighton, Harvester Press; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 188, £20.00. Interaction between arts and sciences has long been regarded as one of the characteristic features of the Romantic era. The scientific writings by the poet Coleridge and the poetical experiments by the scientist Davy are among the ...

Commentary on the life achievements of Albert Hofmann (1906−2008), one of UZH's most honored alumni

We study logic translations from an abstract perspective, without any commitment to the structure of sentences and the nature of logical entailment, which also means that we cover both proof-theoretic and modeltheoretic entailment. We show how logic translations induce notions of logical expressiveness, consistency strength and sublogic, leading to an explanation of paradoxes that have been des...

Professor Joep Lange lived a life of profound consequence. One of the true leaders in our field, his life and work played fundamental roles in shaping and directing the global response to HIV/AIDS by any measure one of the great human, medical and public health movements of our time. Joep was a past president of the International AIDS Society. His killing, with his beloved partner and muse Jacq...

I am very sad to report the passing away of Professor Ugo E.F. Carcassi, a great man, internist, rheumatologist, and co-founder of the European integration of medical sciences. He passed away in his home city, Cagliari, on the 16th of May, 2016. Professor Ugo Efisio Francesco Carcassi was Sardinian; he was born in Cagliari on the 21st of August 1921. He was admitted to the Medical Faculty at th...

IT is with great sadness that we inform you that Martin Wolpers, a member of our editorial board, passed away suddenly on Thursday, February 25, 2016 at the age of 47. He leaves behind his loving wife Marion, his daughter Sina and his son Leon. Martin was a magnificent person, a friend, colleague, teacher, and mentor to many. He had a talent for bringing people together and could bring out the ...

One of the first eager readers of Steinitz’s paper was Emmy Noether. At the time when the paper appeared she was still living in her hometown Erlangen, during what may be called the period of her apprenticeship, studying the highlights of contemporary mathematics of the time. Her guide and mentor in this period was Ernst Fischer. We can almost be sure that Steinitz’s paper was the object of ext...