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Robert W. Kates (1929-2018): Grappled with problems of the human environment [Retrospectives] (2018)

William Riebsame Travis

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2018-08-01

Description: Robert W. Kates died April 21, 2018, at age 89, a geographer who studied the relationship between society and environment and whose commitment to collaborative science kept his colleagues busy with big questions, big projects, and the challenge of fixing problems imbricated in the human use and transformation of the...

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The varied careers of Kenneth L. Bowles [Retrospectives] (2018)

M. Granger Morgan, Mark Overgaard, Ann E. Bowles

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2018-12-05

Description: It is not unusual for the careers of scientists and engineers to span a range of topics, driven by their insatiable curiosity about how things work, the fun they derive from problem solving, an aesthetic sense for “sweet solutions,” and a joy in sharing their knowledge with others. Few careers...

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Stephen Hawking (1942-2018): Toward a complete understanding of the universe [Retrospectives] (2018)

James Hartle

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2018-05-23

Description: Stephen Hawking overcame the limitations of a debilitating disease to make major contributions to science. He did this through remarkable persistence, determination, conviction, courage, and will. He was supported in this by his family, his students, and his colleagues. Stephen Hawking. Image courtesy of Alan Fersht (University of Cambridge, Cambridge,...

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Retrospective of Charles Pence Slichter (NAS 1967) [Retrospectives] (2018)

Gordon Baym

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2018-05-30

Description: Charles Pence Slichter died on February 19 of this year at the age of 94. Charlie, as he was known to his friends, was one of the giants of postwar physics, a pioneer of electron and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and a renowned expert on superconductivity, a remarkably influential educator,...

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Jack Halpern (1925-2018): Pioneer of homogeneous catalysis [Retrospectives] (2018)

John E. Bercaw

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2018-05-16

Description: Jack Halpern, a preeminent scholar and father of modern organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, died January 31, 2018 at the age of 93. Homogeneous catalysis by transition metal complexes, a field that has many important scientific and technological applications, can be traced to his early contributions. Jack developed methodologies to...

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Donald Lynden-Bell (1935-2018) [Retrospectives] (2018)

Martin J. Rees

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2018-04-04

Description: Donald Lynden-Bell was lucky in his heredity and his environment. His great-grandfather knew the famous astronomer John Herschel. His father, an army Colonel, inherited a telescope and introduced Donald to the wonders of the sky. At his school, Marlborough College, Donald was exceedingly well taught. He came up to Clare...

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Vera C. Rubin: Pioneering American astronomer (1928-2016) [Retrospectives] (2017)

Neta A. Bahcall

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-03-01

Description: Vera Cooper Rubin, an icon of astronomy whose work revolutionized our understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of dark matter, passed away on December 25, 2016 at the age of 88. Vera had a lifelong love of the cosmos. “How could you possibly live on this Earth and...

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Robert Treat Paine III (1933-2016) [Retrospectives] (2017)

Stephen R. Palumbi, James A. Estes, Peter Kareiva, Simon A. Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Mary E. Power

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-04

Description: Robert Treat Paine III passed away June 13 in Seattle surrounded by family and friends. RTP, as he was known, was an emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, where he developed a career that helped define the field of community ecology. Ever an avid naturalist who paid close attention...

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Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Nicole Creanza, Oren Kolodny, Marcus W. Feldman

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers have developed theoretical models, both verbal and mathematical, to facilitate our understanding of these patterns. Many of the first quantitative models of cultural evolution were modified from existing...

Keywords: Sackler Colloquium on Gene Regulatory Networks and Network Models in Development and Evolution, Sackler Colloquium on Extension of Biology Through Culture

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Older, sociable capuchins (Cebus capucinus) invent more social behaviors, but younger monkeys innovate more in other contexts [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Susan E. Perry, Brendan J. Barrett, Irene Godoy

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: An important extension to our understanding of evolutionary processes has been the discovery of the roles that individual and social learning play in creating recurring phenotypes on which selection can act. Cultural change occurs chiefly through invention of new behavioral variants combined with social transmission of the novel behaviors to...

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Evolutionary neuroscience of cumulative culture [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Dietrich Stout, Erin E. Hecht

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Culture suffuses all aspects of human life. It shapes our minds and bodies and has provided a cumulative inheritance of knowledge, skills, institutions, and artifacts that allows us to truly stand on the shoulders of giants. No other species approaches the extent, diversity, and complexity of human culture, but we...

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Song hybridization events during revolutionary song change provide insights into cultural transmission in humpback whales [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Ellen C. Garland, Luke Rendell, Luca Lamoni, M. Michael Poole, Michael J. Noad

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a cultural trait and social learning in any nonhuman animal. To understand how songs are learned, we investigate rare cases...

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Culture extends the scope of evolutionary biology in the great apes [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Andrew Whiten

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Discoveries about the cultures and cultural capacities of the great apes have played a leading role in the recognition emerging in recent decades that cultural inheritance can be a significant factor in the lives not only of humans but also of nonhuman animals. This prominence derives in part from these...

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Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Francesco d’Errico, William E. Banks, Dan L. Warren, Giovanni Sgubin, Karen van Niekerk, Christopher Henshilwood, Anne–Laure Daniau, Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goni

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: The archaeological record shows that typically human cultural traits emerged at different times, in different parts of the world, and among different hominin taxa. This pattern suggests that their emergence is the outcome of complex and nonlinear evolutionary trajectories, influenced by environmental, demographic, and social factors, that need to be...

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Gene-culture coevolution in whales and dolphins [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Hal Whitehead

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Whales and dolphins (Cetacea) have excellent social learning skills as well as a long and strong mother–calf bond. These features produce stable cultures, and, in some species, sympatric groups with different cultures. There is evidence and speculation that this cultural transmission of behavior has affected gene distributions. Culture seems to...

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The extension of biology through culture [Biological Sciences] (2017)

Andrew Whiten, Francisco J. Ayala, Marcus W. Feldman, Kevin N. Laland

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Biology is the study of life. How our understanding of the nature and evolution of living systems is being enriched and extended through new discoveries about social learning and culture in human and nonhuman animals is the subject of the collection of articles we introduce here. Recent decades have revealed...

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Cultural macroevolution matters [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Russell D. Gray, Joseph Watts

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evolutionary biology to answer broad-scale questions about the...

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Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Sally E. Street, Ana F. Navarrete, Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Explanations for primate brain expansion and the evolution of human cognition and culture remain contentious despite extensive research. While multiple comparative analyses have investigated variation in brain size across primate species, very few have addressed why primates vary in how much they use social learning. Here, we evaluate the hypothesis...

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Pursuing Darwin’s curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Alex Mesoudi

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: In the past few decades, scholars from several disciplines have pursued the curious parallel noted by Darwin between the genetic evolution of species and the cultural evolution of beliefs, skills, knowledge, languages, institutions, and other forms of socially transmitted information. Here, I review current progress in the pursuit of an...

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The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Arnon Lotem, Joseph Y. Halpern, Shimon Edelman, Oren Kolodny

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: When humans and other animals make cultural innovations, they also change their environment, thereby imposing new selective pressures that can modify their biological traits. For example, there is evidence that dairy farming by humans favored alleles for adult lactose tolerance. Similarly, the invention of cooking possibly affected the evolution of...

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A social insect perspective on the evolution of social learning mechanisms [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Ellouise Leadbeater, Erika H. Dawson

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: The social world offers a wealth of opportunities to learn from others, and across the animal kingdom individuals capitalize on those opportunities. Here, we explore the role of natural selection in shaping the processes that underlie social information use, using a suite of experiments on social insects as case studies....

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Synchronized practice helps bearded capuchin monkeys learn to extend attention while learning a tradition [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Yonat Eshchar, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Briseida Resende, Kellie Laity, Patricia Izar

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Culture extends biology in that the setting of development shapes the traditions that individuals learn, and over time, traditions evolve as occasional variations are learned by others. In humans, interactions with others impact the development of cognitive processes, such as sustained attention, that shape how individuals learn as well as...

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Cumulative cultural learning: Development and diversity [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Cristine H. Legare

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: The complexity and variability of human culture is unmatched by any other species. Humans live in culturally constructed niches filled with artifacts, skills, beliefs, and practices that have been inherited, accumulated, and modified over generations. A causal account of the complexity of human culture must explain its distinguishing characteristics: It...

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Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Lucy M. Aplin, Ben C. Sheldon, Richard McElreath

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In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Social learning is important to the life history of many animals, helping individuals to acquire new adaptive behavior. However despite long-running debate, it remains an open question whether a reliance on social learning can also lead to mismatched or maladaptive behavior. In a previous study, we experimentally induced traditions for...

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How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Susan A. Gelman, Steven O. Roberts

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture, but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously encourages both cultural stability and cultural innovation. This paper examines this issue by focusing on the use of language to transmit categories,...

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Young children communicate their ignorance and ask questions [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Paul L. Harris, Deborah T. Bartz, Meredith L. Rowe

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Publication Date: 2017-07-26

Description: Children acquire information, especially about the culture in which they are being raised, by listening to other people. Recent evidence has shown that young children are selective learners who preferentially accept information, especially from informants who are likely to be representative of the surrounding culture. However, the extent to which...

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Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood [Colloquium Paper] (2017)

Alison Gopnik, Shaun O’Grady, Christopher G. Lucas, Thomas L. Griffiths, Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Rosie Aboody, Hoki Fung, Ronald E. Dahl

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Description: How was the evolution of our unique biological life history related to distinctive human developments in cognition and culture? We suggest that the extended human childhood and adolescence allows a balance between exploration and exploitation, between wider and narrower hypothesis search, and between innovation and imitation in cultural learning. In...

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Thomas E. Starzl: Transplantation pioneer [Retrospectives] (2017)

David A. Brenner

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In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-10-11

Description: Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD was born on March 11, 1926 in Le Mars, Iowa, the second son of Roman Frederick Starzl and Anna Laura Starzl. His parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Czechoslovakian and Irish immigrants. Roman Starzl was an editor, publisher, and owner of a newspaper. Anna...

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Melvin M. Grumbach 1925-2016 [Retrospectives] (2017)

Shlomo Melmed

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In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-05-10

Description: Generations of clinicians have been faced with often striking developmental and acquired hormonal syndromes associated with reproductive, growth, and metabolic phenotypes. These syndromes have included ambiguous genitalia, anomalies of sexual development, intersex forms, accelerated or delayed puberty, gigantism, and short stature. Although clinical phenotypes of these disorders have been well-established,...

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Ralph J. Cicerone: His scientific legacy and a long friendship [Retrospectives] (2017)

Veerabhadran Ramanathan

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In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-04-26

Description: The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole and anthropogenic climate change has thrust the atmospheric sciences into the forefront of scientific disciplines, and such findings routinely appear on the front pages of the media and on the desks of world leaders. Two events can be cited as examples of the...

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Peter C. Nowell (1928-2016) [Retrospectives] (2017)

John C. Reed, Brian J. Druker

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-05-02

Description: The pioneering cancer cytogeneticist, Peter C. Nowell, died on December 26, 2016, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 88. His work laid the foundation for the recognition of the genetic basis of cancer that paved the way for modern targeted cancer therapeutics. Nowell’s observations of changes in...

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Deborah S. Jin 1968-2016: Trailblazer of ultracold science [Retrospectives] (2017)

Kang-Kuen Ni, Markus Greiner, Silke Ospelkaus

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-02-01

Description: Deborah Jin, a pioneer in modern atomic and molecular physics, passed away on September 15, 2016, at age 47, after a courageous fight with cancer. She was a world renowned scientist at JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) in Boulder, Colorado, a joint institute of the...

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Ahmed Zewail: A force for Egyptian science [Retrospectives] (2017)

Mostafa A. El-Sayed

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-02-23

Description: Undoubtedly, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, who passed away on August 2, 2016, had a strong, positive impact on science in the Middle East and in the West. I knew Zewail as one of his mentors and close friends. Zewail wanted to come from Egypt (Alexandria University) to get his PhD in...

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Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930-2017): A fierce force of harmony [Retrospectives] (2017)

Nai-Chang Yeh

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-07-19

Description: Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, fondly known as “Millie” and “Queen of Carbon Science,” passed away at age 86 on February 20, 2017. She was a pioneer in the research of carbon nanomaterials, a giant in experimental condensed matter physics, a fine musician, a compassionate mentor and role model to young...

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Stephen Fienberg: Superman of statistics [Retrospectives] (2017)

Larry Wasserman

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-03-22

Description: Stephen E. Fienberg died on December 14, 2016 after a 4-year battle with cancer. He was husband to Joyce, father to Anthony and Howard, grandfather to six, brother to Lorne, mentor, teacher, and a prolific researcher. Most of all, he was a tireless promoter of the idea that the field...

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George Klein: 1925-2016 [Retrospectives] (2017)

Klaus Rajewsky

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-03-29

Description: George Klein, famous cancer biologist and acclaimed writer on matters of science, human responsibility, and the human condition, decorated by innumerable awards, honorary doctorates and other honors, elected member of this Academy and many other learned societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and...

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S. Jonathan Singer: A man who loved ideas and detested walls [Retrospectives] (2017)

Russell F. Doolittle

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2017-04-05

Description: S. Jonathan Singer, “Jon” to one and all, died February 2, 2017, at the age of 92. Educated as a physical chemist, he transitioned gracefully by way of protein and immunochemistry to become a cell and molecular biologist of huge renown. His initial bout with fame came in 1949 when...

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Alfred Gilman: Intrepid, committed scientist [Retrospectives] (2016)

Bourne, H. R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-03-30

Description: Alfred Gilman died on December 23, 2015, at age 74. With Martin Rodbell, he shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the first heterotrimeric guanine-nucleotide-binding (G-) protein and for elucidating the best-understood molecular mechanism for transducing signals across plasma membranes of eukaryotes. Setting a lofty standard...

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Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin [Retrospective] (2016)

Bethune, D. S., Wynne, J. J.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-01-06

Description: Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin, a renowned pioneer in laser science, passed away on September 24, 2015, from injuries suffered during a fall a month earlier. Peter, an IBM Fellow emeritus, devoted his career to understanding, creating, and using light. His 1966 discovery of laser action in organic dyes is extraordinarily significant....

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Walter Kohn (1923-2016) [Retrospectives] (2016)

Scalapino, D. J., Sugar, R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-08-11

Description: Walter Kohn, who died on April 19, 2016, once said “Physics isn’t what I do; it is what I am.” Indeed, Walter was a world-renowned physicist, winner of the 1960 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for his prediction of anomalies in the phonon spectrum in metals, the 1977 Davisson–Germer Prize with...

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Leo P. Kadanoff (1937-2015): An appreciation [Retrospectives] (2016)

Coppersmith, S. N.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-01-21

Description: Leo P. Kadanoff, who died on October 26, 2015, devoted his scientific life to trying to elucidate how much of the world can be understood using mathematical models. Historically, physics has addressed this problem by searching for fundamental laws that completely specify the right ingredients to put into a theoretical...

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George Hess: A scientific appreciation [Retrospectives] (2016)

Scheraga, H. A.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-02-10

Description: The recent passing of George Hess (1926–2015) has left a deep void in Cornell University’s Biochemistry department, and in the hearts of his many friends and admirers. He is sorely missed by his scientific friends and by his loving family. George Hess. Image courtesy of Cornell University. George Hess was...

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Karl W. Butzer: Interdisciplinary mentor [Retrospectives] (2016)

Doolittle, W. E.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-10-12

Description: As his students in geography, archaeology, geology, and Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern Studies attest, you could learn more in one day in the field with Karl Butzer than you could in a semester-long course with any other professor. Karl’s fieldwork and active teaching ended May 4, 2016. Future...

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Roscoe Owen Brady: Passion for patients [Retrospectives] (2016)

Medin, J. A.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-10-19

Description: How do you distill the dignitas and essence of a scientist and a trailblazer and a mentor in just a few paragraphs? And communicate this adequately to peers, former colleagues, and people that have never met him? Especially a scientist with a career longer than most, who discovered more than...

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Seymour J. Klebanoff: Discoverer of WBC killing mechanisms [Retrospectives] (2016)

Henry Rosen, W. Conrad Liles, Wesley C. Van Voorhis

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-11-16

Description: Seymour J. Klebanoff, MD, PhD, died peacefully on August 31, 2016 at the age of 89. He began his medical and scientific career at the University of Toronto (Doctor of Medicine, 1951), where he coauthored his first paper, dealing with renal anatomy, in 1950 (1). Klebanoff proceeded to complete Doctor...

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Phil Majerus: Champion of low-dose aspirin therapy [Retrospectives] (2016)

Kornfeld, S. A.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-08-31

Description: On June 8, 2016, the field of hematology lost one of its giants, Phil Majerus, who died after a long illness. Phil was truly one of a kind: a biochemist extraordinaire with a passion for life, a quick wit, and a colorful personality, whose discoveries changed the practice of medicine....

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Samuel Frederick Edwards [Retrospective] (2016)

Goldenfeld, N.

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-01-06

Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal paper by Sam Edwards on the statistical mechanics of a single polymer chain in dilute solution, a paper that in one stroke founded the modern quantitative understanding of polymer matter, and vaulted soft condensed matter on to the stage of theoretical...

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Stanton J. Peale (1937-2015) [Retrospectives] (2015)

Canup, R. M.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-08-19

Description: Planetary science lost one of its most highly respected members with the recent passing of Prof. Stanton (Stan) Peale. At last December’s American Geophysical Union meeting, Stan presented a talk on effects of the ellipsoidal shape of Mercury’s solid inner core on the tilt of the planet’s spin axis, but...

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Daniel Steinberg (1922-2015) [Retrospectives] (2015)

Glass, C. K., Witztum, J. L.

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-08-12

Description: Daniel Steinberg, a pioneering investigator in the fields of lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis and a major influence on treatment of hypercholesterolemia, died on March 14, 2015 at the age of 92. Dan’s scientific achievements included pioneering studies in fatty acid metabolism and hormone-sensitive lipase, elucidating the metabolic basis for Refsum’s...

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Alexander Dalgarno (1928-2015) [Retrospectives] (2015)

van Dishoeck, E. F., Hartquist, T., Sternberg, A.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-08-05

Description: As Sir David Bates wrote in 1988, “There is no greater figure than Alex Dalgarno in the history of atomic-molecular-optical [AMO] physics, and its applications” (1). Prof. Alexander Dalgarno (Harvard) passed away peacefully on April 9, 2015 at age 87 in the presence of his long-term companion, Fern Creelan. Alexander...

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Frank Marble (1918-2014) [Retrospectives] (2015)

Karagozian, A.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-05-06

Description: Frank Marble, among the nation’s preeminent aerospace propulsion scientists during the second half of the 20th century, has passed away at the age of 96. His pioneering technical contributions changed the direction of several important fields that are foundational to both aircraft and rocket systems. However, quite possibly, Frank Marble...

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Vernon Mountcastle: Father of neuroscience [Retrospectives] (2015)

Sejnowski, T. J.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-05-27

Description: The first annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience was held in 1971 in Washington, DC. Vernon Mountcastle, the first elected president of the fledgling society, planned every detail of the inaugural meeting and was at the front door to greet everyone into what would eventually become a major scientific...

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Lester Reed: A "complex" man who loved science [Retrospectives] (2015)

Hackert, M. L., Appling, D. R., Lambowitz, A. M.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-05-20

Description: Lester J. Reed, a pioneer in the field of biochemistry, died peacefully in Austin, Texas on January 14, 2015 at the age of 90. Lester Reed was born in New Orleans on January 3, 1925. He showed an early interest in chemistry, having his own laboratory in a shed under...

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John Schellman and the birth of protein folding [Retrospectives] (2015)

Baldwin, R. L., von Hippel, P. H.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-06-03

Description: John Schellman, who passed away on December 16, 2014, had two exceptional teachers, Walter Kauzmann and Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang, both of whom quickly recognized John’s scientific depth and creativity. His doctoral work with Kauzmann at Princeton University taught John how to find the basic issues in a new research area and...

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Donald F. Steiner MD, 1930-2014 [Retrospectives] (2015)

Philipson, L. H., Bell, G., Polonsky, K. S.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-01-28

Description: Donald F. Steiner, the A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, died at his home on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. He was 84 years old and had been a member of the faculty since 1960....

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Herman N. Eisen: Mentor to many [Retrospectives] (2015)

Kranz, D. M., Sykulev, Y.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-02-11

Description: Herman Eisen passed away on November 2, 2014, at the age of 96. During his long and distinguished career, Herman was a mentor to those who trained in his laboratory (ourselves included), to those who collaborated with him over the years, and to many faculty and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute...

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Developmental biologist Eric Davidson passes away [Retrospectives] (2015)

Hood, L., Rothenberg, E. V.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-11-04

Description: Eric H. Davidson, a world leader in developmental biology, demonstrated that most of development is, indeed, regulated by the genome. He was a pioneer researcher and theorist of the gene regulatory networks that execute the most complex biological processes, such as the cascade of molecular mechanisms that transform a single-celled...

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Bill Paul: The heart of immunology [Retrospectives] (2015)

Lenardo, M. J., Staudt, L. M.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-11-18

Description: Sadly, on September 19, 2015, a giant in the field of immunology, William “Bill” Paul, died of lymphoma. The passing of this outstanding scientist, with his warm avuncular personality and intense excitement about immunology, is a great loss to the field. His self-effacing manner and erudition were instrumental in advancing...

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David M. Raup (1933-2015) [Retrospectives] (2015)

Foote, M.

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-12-09

Description: David M. Raup was one of the most influential paleontologists of the second half of the 20th century, infusing the field with concepts from modern biology and laying the foundation for several major lines of research that continue today: theoretical morphology, which addresses why, despite eons of evolution, the spectrum...

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Max Birnstiel 1933-2014 [Retrospectives] (2015)

Grunstein, M., Bird, A.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-01-15

Description: Max Birnstiel, who died in November, was a pioneer of molecular biology and a creator of European scientific institutions. Born in Brazil in 1933, his family moved back to their native Switzerland when he was 5 years old, and he completed his education there. When he asked his teachers how...

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Irwin Rose (1926-2015) [Retrospectives] (2015)

Klinman, J. P.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-08-26

Description: On June 2, 2015, Irwin (Ernie) Rose died quietly in his sleep at age 88, after a long and fruitful lifetime of sleuthing for the secrets of life at the molecular level. Truly great scientists are much more than the sum of their publications and awards. This is especially true...

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Donald Metcalf: The father of modern hematology [Retrospectives] (2015)

Adams, J. M., Cory, S.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-03-04

Description: On December 15, 2014, the hematology and leukemia research communities lost one of their greatest leaders to pancreatic cancer. Through a remarkable 60-year research career, Donald Metcalf led the discovery and characterization of the regulators of blood cell production. The legacy of his work is not only that blood cells...

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Melford E. Spiro, 1920-2014 [Retrospectives] (2015)

D'Andrade, R. G.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-02-18

Description: Melford Eliot Spiro, born in 1920 in Ohio to Jewish immigrants, died in La Jolla in October 2014. His parents moved to Minnesota where he attended the University of Minnesota, majoring in philosophy. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1950. Spiro was especially interested in the philosophy of...

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