I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well” said Alexander the Great, King of Greek Macedonia, about his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle. This statement echoes the widely held belief of the students, research associates, collaborators, and admirers of Klaus Ruedenberg regarding his invaluable contributions toward shaping their scientific lives. Disciplines Chemi...

After a comment on the performance of LEP some highlights of the LEP1 and LEP2 physics programmes are reviewed. The talk concentrates on the precision measurements at the Z resonance, two fermion production above the Z, W + W − production, ZZ production, indirect limits on the Higgs mass, LEP contributions to the exploration of the CKM matrix, and on the LEP measurements of αs.