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We highlight the impact of Emil Wolf's work on coherence and polarization on an ever increasing amount of applications in the 21 st century. We present a brief review of how partial coherence at the level of increasing order of coherence…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-17 Girish S. Agarwal , Anton Classen

On June 2, 2012 it would have been the eighty fifth birthday of Edwald Abramovitch Zavadskii (1927-2005), corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences, brilliant experimental physicist and a person with a very uncommon and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-30 V. I. Kamenev , V. I. Val'kov , Yu. A Mamaluy

Leopold Halpern, who was a close associate of both Erwin Schroedinger and Paul Dirac before making his own mark as a theoretical physicist of the first rank, died in Tallahassee, Florida on 3 June 2006 after a valiant struggle with cancer.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 James M. Overduin , Hans S. Plendl

Discussion of ``The William Kruskal Legacy: 1919--2005'' by Stephen E. Fienberg, Stephen M. Stigler and Judith M. Tanur [arXiv:0710.5063]

Methodology · Statistics 2009-09-29 Norman M. Bradburn

The purpose of this note is to honour memory of Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, a Brazilian mathematics educator, who passed away on May 12, 2021.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Veselin Jungic

In commemoration of the fifth anniversary since Nino Boccara's departure, this article offers some personal recollections and provides insight into his life and accomplishments. Detailed bibliography of his works is included together with…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Henryk Fukś

The mathematical achievements of Harry Kesten since the mid-1950s have revolutionized probability theory as a subject in its own right and in its associations with aspects of algebra, analysis, geometry, and statistical physics. Through his…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Geoffrey R. Grimmett , Gregory F. Lawler

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.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Gabriele Nebe

This is a free summary of a much longer article published in german in "Forschung Frankfurt". This article presents facts concerning the works of Max Dehn and the history of Frankfurt University. E. Hellinger, R. Moufang, C. L. Siegel, A.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Burde , W. Schwarz , J. Wolfart , A. D. Coste

In writing this biographical memoir of John Hammersley, we have tried to communicate something of the character of the person, and of the impact of his scientific achievements across lattice models (for example, percolation, self-avoiding…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey Grimmett , Dominic Welsh

Discussion of ``The William Kruskal Legacy: 1919--2005'' by Stephen E. Fienberg, Stephen M. Stigler and Judith M. Tanur [arXiv:0710.5063]

Methodology · Statistics 2007-11-06 Morris L. Eaton

This is a Comment on the Article ``Aging, phase ordering and conformal invariance'' by M.Henkel, M.Pleimling, C.Godr\`eche and J.M.Luck [Phys.Rev.Lett. 87, 265701 (2001)].

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Federico Corberi , Eugenio Lippiello , Marco Zannetti

The prominent Russian mathematician Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich passed away on February 19, 2017. In this article we supply his biography, discuss his many important contributions to number theory, algebra and algebraic geometry, and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Igor Dolgachev

Biography and publications list for Donald Arthur Preece, who died on 6 January 2014, who made many contributions in statistics (experimental design) and in combinatorics.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-02-11 R. A. Bailey

Errico Presutti was a leading figure in mathematical physics and an important contributor to rigorous results in statistical mechanics. Due to his strong scientific personality and human qualities, there are many who remember Errico…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-31 Lorenzo Bertini , Joel L. Lebowitz , Mario Pulvirenti

Roger Carter (1934--2022) was a very well known mathematician working in algebra, representation theory and Lie theory. He spent most of his mathematical career in Warwick. Roger was a great communicator of mathematics: the clarity,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Meinolf Geck , Donna M. Testerman

This is a transcript of my conference talk in remembrance of Peter Hasenfratz who deceased earlier in 2016. One of Peter's many important contributions to the lattice community has been the initiation of the first lattice conference at CERN…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-03 Urs Wenger

I present some memories of my Ph.D supervisor and, later, collaborator but always encouraging supporter Prof. G. Lazarides. Some of his contributions to our common and related scientific activities on the phenomenology of MSSM and inflation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 C. Pallis

Professor A. K. Raychaudhuri suddenly passed away on 18th June 2005. I have attempted to give a glimpse of his life and work, and more specifically his role as a great teacher and inspiring force to three generations of students of the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naresh Dadhich

William Kruskal (Bill) was a distinguished statistician who spent virtually his entire professional career at the University of Chicago, and who had a lasting impact on the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and on the field of statistics…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-11-06 Stephen E. Fienberg , Stephen M. Stigler , Judith M. Tanur