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Biographical essay at the occasion of the first death anniversary of Manfred Bonitz

This is a homage to the memory of Prof. Steven Weinberg who passed away on 23 July 2021.

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This article discusses the life and work of Professor Srishti Dhar Chatterji, who passed away on September 28, 2017, in Lausanne, Switzerland, most suddenly and unexpectedly, after a very brief illness. Complete bibliographical information…

Professor Dr. Karl Dragutin Rakos passed away on October 31, 2011 one day before his 86th birthday. With that the Vienna astronomical community lost a valued researcher, university teacher and co-founder of modern astrophysical research at…

In the following article a Ph.D. student of V.I.~Arnold gives a personal account on his teacher who unexpectedly passed away earlier this year.

We give some personal reflections on the person and scientist Lars Brink and on some of his scientific achievements. Our relations to Lars are briefly described in [1] and [2], while the sources relevant for this text are summarised in [3].

We describe the development of the mathematics of Helmut R. Salzmann (3. 11. 1930 -- 8. 3. 2022) and the main difficulties he was facing, documenting his lifelong productivity and his far reaching influence. We include a comprehensive…

In this article we describe the life and work of Wolf Barth who died on 30th December 2016. Wolf Barth's contributions to algebraic variety span a wide range of subjects. His achievements range from what is now called the Barth-Lefschetz…

This is a biography of Herbert Busemann (1905--1994). The final version will appear in Volume I of the Selected Works of Herbert Busemann (2 volumes, Springer Verlag, to appear in 2017).

Steven Weinberg, renowned particle theorist and Nobel laureate, passed away in July 2021. We discuss selections of his work on effective field theory, electroweak unification, and symmetry related topics. We then add a few memories of…

Boris Venkov passed away on November 10 2011 just 5 days before his 77th birthday. This article gives a short survey of the mathematical work of Boris Venkov in this direction.

The article is dedicated to thye memory of a distinguished mathematician Professor Misha Shubin

Hans Grauert died in September of 2011. This article reviews his life in mathematics and recalls some detail his major accomplishments.

In remembrance of Professor Uffe Valentin Haagerup (1949--2015), as a brilliant mathematician, we review some aspects of his life, and his outstanding mathematical accomplishments.

Introduction for a special issue of Physica E dedicated to the memory of Markus B\"uttiker.

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This obituary is devoted to M. I. Polikarpov (28.12.1952 - 18.07.2013), our teacher, our colleague, our friend. We recollect some facts of his biography and stages of his scientific career, and make a brief review of some of his most known…

A short biography of Hans Bethe.