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Jan van der Noordaa
Our loyal friend and colleague, Jan van der Noordaa, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 80 on the evening of 17 June 2015. Jan died in his sleep while visiting his long-term colleague and dear friend, Dr. Alla Bukrinskaya, in Potomac (MD, USA). Jan was born in Leiden (the Netherlands) in 1934, studied medicine at Leiden University and received his MD in 1960. The PhD thesis entitled “Prima
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Longping Yuan
The father of hybrid rice, academician Longping Yuan, passed away on 22 May 2021, in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. He was born into an intellectual family in Beijing in September 1930. Due to Japanese aggression, he received his education at different primary and high schools around China from 1936 to 1949 and developed a keen interest in gardening and agronomy during this period. From Augu
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Manfred Milinski
Studied biology and mathematics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and the Ruhr-University Bochum. PhD (Dr. rer nat.) in Biology 1978. Habilitation ( venia legend) in 1985 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Guest Professor at the Department of Ecology, University of Bergen, Norway. Heisenberg Professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. From 1987 to 1999 Full Professor and Direc
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James Francis White
Dr. James F. White, Jr. is Professor of Plant Biology at Rutgers University where he, students and collaborators conduct research on beneficial and endophytic microbes that inhabit plant cells and tissues. Dr. White obtained the Ph.D. in Botany/Mycology from the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. White is the author of more than 350 articles and book chapters, and author and editor of reference bo
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Joy Delhanty
Joy Delhanty was a world leading cytogeneticist who stayed at University College London all her working life. Gaining her PhD under the supervision of Lionel Penrose in 1962 she made seminal contributions to the fields of Preimplantation Genetic Testing and cancer genomics. “Did it work?” 11 February 1991: With an enthusiasm and energy that might have surprised those that did not know he
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Andrew Knight
Whilst a Western Australian veterinary student in 2000, Andrew Knight caused controversy by refusing to kill animals during his surgical and preclinical training. Instead, he helped establish a humane surgical training program, based partly on neutering homeless animals from animal shelters. Andrew then worked in small animal veterinary practice. He is now Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics
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