Emergency and wilderness medicine expert. Born Jan 4, 1951, in Plainfield, NJ, USA, he died of brain cancer on June 23, 2021, Los Altos, CA, aged 70 years. As an early pioneer medicine, Paul Auerbach regularly encountered gaps the field, including insufficient academic resources or collaborating organisations. Yet “he was kind man who wasn’t just going to identify gaps”, said Andra Blomkalns, R...

environmental health physician-scientist and NIEHS director from 1966 to 1971, passed away in Laguna Beach, California. A pathologist by training, Kotin received his MD in 1939 from the University of Illinois, and later served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, followed by private practice and appointments at Los Angeles County Hospital and the University of Southern California...

On September 2, 2015, the image of three-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach sparked an international effort to aid refugees. Donations to charitable organizations surged, dwarfing the assistance to refugees since the violence in Syria began in 2011. Kurdi, however, was not the only person to drown that day in the Aegean Sea: Both his five-year-old brother and h...

Paul W. Sternberg was born on Long Island, New York. He was an undergraduate at Hampshire College, obtaining his B.A. in 1978. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from MIT in 1984 for work on nematode development with Robert Horvitz, and pursued postdoctoral research in yeast molecular genetics with Ira Herskowitz at UCSF. He joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, where he i...

Ubiquitous, high-bandwidth Internet and cellular connectivity is no longer a goal, but an expectation for modern-day users. Such connectivity is heavily dependent on infrastructure that is both costly and slow to deploy. As data consumption and demand increase at rates akin to Moore’s Law, traditional infrastructure models begin to break down. In my thesis work, I have studied problems surround...

Algebra

Paul Erdős was a searcher, a searcher for mathematical truth. Paul’s place in the mathematical pantheon will be a matter of strong debate, for in that rarefied atmosphere he had a unique style. The late Ernst Straus said it best in a commemoration of Erdős’s seventieth birthday. In our century, in which mathematics is so strongly dominated by “theory constructors” he has remained the prince of ...