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In these shorts notes I want to remembermy relationship with GianCarlo Ghirardi, who was my supervisor in my Master Degree in Physics at the University of Trieste and then he became a very deep and close friend. I don't want to describe in…
With this contribution we would like to remember Chandra M. R. Kintala who passed away in November 2009. We will give short overviews of his CV and his contributions to the field of theoretical and applied computer science and, given the…
This is a homage to the memory of Prof. Steven Weinberg who passed away on 23 July 2021.
This short note is dedicated to the memory of the distinguish logician V. Yankov (Jankov).
This talk presents a short review of David Brink's most important achievements and of my own experience working with him.
This article concerns the life and work of Lucjan Emil B\"ottcher (1872-1937), a Polish mathematician. Besides biographical and bibliographical information, it contains a survey of his mathematical achievements in the theory of iteration…
One outlines here in brief how the work of $Gian Carlo Rota$ had influenced my group research and life, starting from the end of the last century up to present time state of $The Internet Gian Carlo Rota Polish Seminar$. This note has been…
This part of the talk aims to present briefly the biodata and the exceptional career of Paco Yndurain who left us suddenly in June 2008. The scientific part: Light Scalar Mesons in QCD is published in the proceedings of QCD 08 (Montpellier…
The purpose of this note is to honour memory of Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, a Brazilian mathematics educator, who passed away on May 12, 2021.
The article is dedicated to the memory and enduring legacy of Professor Robert V. Kohn, Courant Institute, NYU. In this memorial article, we record thoughts and reminiscences of his exemplary life.
This year is the 100th birth anniversary of Richard Philips Feynman. This article commemorates his scientific contributions and lasting legacy.
The article is dedicated to recalling the life and mathematics of Louis Nirenberg, a distinguished Canadian mathematician who recently died in New York, where he lived. An emblematic figure of Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in…
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…
In this reminiscence I discuss the influence of Henry Eyring and John Barker upon my life and work. Others, especially my family, have been of even greater personal influence. However, these two great and grand men were of tremendous…
A recent essay [1] reminds us of how richly Boltzmann deserves to be admiringly commemorated for the originality of his ideas on the occasion of his 150th birthday. Without any doubt, the scientific community owes Boltzmann a great debt of…
The figure of Raoul Gatto, who died in 2017, is remembered here, with an illustration of his career and the main results of his research, along with the personal memories of some of those who worked with him.
This is a pedagogical overview of neutrino physics from the invention of neutrino by Pauli in 1930 to the precise measurement of neutrino mass and mixing parameters via neutrino oscillation experiments in recent years. I have tried to pitch…
This is a short memoriam celebrating the life and work of the general relativist Joshua N. Goldberg, who passed away in October, 2020.
Many talks at the 16th Lomonosov Conference, dedicated to Bruno Pontecorvo, detail the remarkable progress in neutrino physics over the last two decades. In this paper, I give an opinionated, and therefore likely inaccurate, review of the…
A short essay on the life and mathematical heritage of Coble. A substantially edited version will be part of the series of biographical memoirs of past members of the National Academy of Sciences. Version 2: minor changes. Version 3. Typo…