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Homage is paid to E. Majorana by dedicating our recent work in his memory.

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Selected events of the scientific biography of Wojtek Dziembowski are briefly described, and several related photos are presented. The full version of the presentation is available at the IAU Symposium 301 webpage.

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This article, written in honor of Fritz Rohrlich, briefly surveys the role of topology in physics.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. P. Balachandran

I review some of the scientific work of George Papadopoulos in the context of the Greek cultural tradition and modern theoretical physics. The main emphasis is on his works on path integrals and their applications. The review is closed by…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. T. Devreese

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…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-10-12 Elias P. Gyftopoulos

Memorial sessions celebrated Leon Lederman, Helen Edwards, and Burton Richter at the April 2019 Meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver. In the session entitled Honoring Leon Lederman, Sally Dawson gave an overview of Leon's…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Chris Quigg

The paper dedicated to memory of Valery Anatolievich Senderov

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-12-06 A. Ya Kanel-Belov

This is an introduction of the volume of the journal Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Caroalinae dedicated to the memory of V\v{e}ra Trnkov\'a}.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Jiří Adámek

Recollections by the author about how his interactions with John Wheeler influenced his career in physics.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 James Hartle

The article is an historical overview of some of the major contributions from different areas of Science with which, for centuries, it has been built up a scientific, sound and consistent vision of the atom. Some experiments that led us to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Francisco Caruso , Vitor Oguri

This is the editor's preface to the special issue of Journal of Spectral Theory, in memory of Yuri Safarov.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Dmitri Vassiliev

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

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Carlo Beenakker , Philippe Jacquod , Andrew Jordan , Peter Samuelsson

We present a brief review of Friedmann's impact on cosmology from a historical and a physical perspective.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Claus Kiefer , Hermann Nicolai

A homage to the life and mathematics of John K. S. McKay. Obituary for the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Yang-Hui He

Leo Breiman was a highly creative, influential researcher with a down-to-earth personal style and an insistence on working on important real world problems and producing useful solutions. This paper is a short review of Breiman's extensive…

Applications · Statistics 2011-01-06 Adele Cutler

This article is a contribution to a Festschrift for S. Helgason. After a biographical sketch, we survey some of his research on several topics in geometric and harmonic analysis during his long and influential career. While not an…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-26 G. Olafsson , R. J. Stanton

Theory of Probability is distinguished by several high-level philosophical attitudes, some stressed by Jeffreys, some implicit. By reviewing these we may recognize the importance in this work in the historical development of statistics.…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-01-19 Robert Kass

This Special Issue of Biomolecules, commissioned in honor of Dr. Philip E. Bourne, focuses on a new field of biomolecular data science. In this brief retrospective, we consider the arc of Bourne's 40-year scientific and professional career,…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-14 Cameron Mura , Emma Candelier , Lei Xie

Contribution to the volume "In Memory of Steven Weinberg" to appear in Nuclear Physics B.

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-15 Gian Francesco Giudice