Journal of Lipid Research Volume 57, 2016 517 Copyright © 2016 by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Dr. Osamu Hayaishi, a world-renowned biochemist and oxygenase scientist, passed away on December 17, 2015, at the age of 95. He was the teacher of the authors of this tribute. In 1932, a short paper reported “ the presence of an oxydase of lipid or lipoxydase of so...

David Gale played a leading role in developing theory of fundamental importance to economic and operations research. He authored papers in game theory and mathematical programming that have had a lasting impact. In addition, he was renowned for his ability to present his results in short papers combining precision and rigor with elegant style. This memorial collects tributes and memories from f...

Please also refer to the excellent obituaries written by Miriam Poirier in Carcinogenesis and by Allan Conney in Cancer Research.

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 15, No. 8, August 2009 1335 G Martin Baer, DVM, MPH, who for many years was chief of the Rabies Laboratory in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, died suddenly at his home in Mexico City on June 2, 2009, at the age of 73. He was an eminent veterinary v...

MelvinM. Grumbach, MD, widely regarded as the world’s foremost pediatric endocrinologist, died October 4, 2016, at the age of 90 (Fig. 1). Beloved by all and affectionately known as Mel, he was the Edward B. Shaw Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, former Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics (1966–1986) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a former President of The Endoc...

William Allan Light, known to his friends as ‘‘Will,’’ died on Sunday, December 8, 2002. He was at his home, Gartree House, Illston-on-the-Hill, near Leicester in England, when he was felled by a heart attack. He was 52 years old. Will is survived by his wife, the former Anita Edwards, by his mother, Mrs. Mary Light of Lancaster, and by a sister, Helen Johnson. At the time of death, Will was an...

age. To her children, she was a loving mother; to her co-workers, she was a caring human being and dedicated public health worker; to the world, she was a herald of the AIDS epidemic, playing a major role in alerting the world to the onset of this epidemic. In January 1979, Sandy took a position in the Parasitic Diseases Division in the Centers for Disease Control, now the Centers for Disease C...