Centenarians Research Articles

A tribute to Peter Hupfer's 90th birthday

A tribute to Peter Hupfer's 90th birthday

To the 85th birthday of Prof. Igor K. Yanson — Founder of the method of point-contact spectroscopy

To the 85th birthday of Prof. Igor K. Yanson — Founder of the method of point-contact spectroscopy

VALENTINA DOMETJANOVNA VIKTOROVA HAS BEEN EXPLORING THE MILLENNIUM FOR ALMOST A CENTURY: ON HER 90TH BIRTHDAY

This article is dedicated to Valentina Dometjanovna's research activities on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Valentina Dometjanovna is a rare type of researcher: an archaeologist-philosopher. Her archaeological theory, «Scientific Research in Archaeology. Archaeology» and «The Thing and the Sign in Archaeology». She is the author of more than 180 scientific articles. During her life she conducted field research in the middle reaches of the Tura River, upstream and downstream of the Tavda River, on Andreevskoye Lake near Tyumen, on the island «Kamennye palatki» near the village of Palkino in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Yekaterinburg.

Decoding Harmony Through Algebra. Viktor Petrenko and Psychosemantics in Cinematography

In March 2023, Viktor Fedorovich Petrenko, a renowned Russian psychologist, celebrated his 75th birthday. Holding a doctoral degree in Psychological Sciences and being a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrenko’s name may not be familiar to everyone, particularly those outside the realm of psychology. Nevertheless, it is highly probable that his groundbreaking methods, which he spent over five decades of his life creating, researching, and applying, have influenced your scientific or practical endeavors. The sheer indispensability of psychosemantics, a field at the core of Professor Petrenko’s work, cannot be overstated when contemplating the landscape of modern science and research practices. Regarded as a trailblazer in this field, he was among the first in the country to apply factor analysis techniques to processing psychological data, paving the way for the evolution of this discipline.

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Preface: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Tao Tang’s 60th Birthday

Preface: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Tao Tang’s 60th Birthday

Editorial Conclusion for the Special Issue “Special Issue in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Professor Hong-Kun Xu”

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Quantum Optics as Applied Quantum Electrodynamics is Back in Town

We start this short note by remembering the beginnings of the Warsaw School of Quantum Optics, evidently stimulated by Iwo Bialynicki-Birula at the Warsaw University, and then Centre for Theoretical Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences, and Adam Kujawski and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula at the Institute of Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences. In the theoretical approaches of the Warsaw School Quantum Field Theory was always present, and Quantum Optics was considered to be Applied Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). All of us who grew up in this fantastic community have carried and are still carrying the gospel to others. In particular, now QED began her run on the red carpet of Super Instense Laser Matter Interactions, Attosecond-physics, and Ultrafast Laser Physics, in general. We will elaborate on the recent progress in this direction, and on the open questions towards future investigations. This paper celebrates the 90th birthday of Prof. Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, our QED guru!

70 years of Sergey V. Gonchenko

May 10, 2023 marks the 70th birthday of Professor Sergey Vladimirovich Gonchenko, a leading researcher of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

On the cultural significance of the creative path of Alexander Liusyi (on the occasion of his 70th birthday)

The jubilee article is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Alexander Pavlovich Lyusoy, a well-known specialist in various fields of humanitarian knowledge, a member of the editorial board of the journal Questions of Cultural Studies. The focus is on the formation of the textological concept of Russian culture developed by him, culture as a sum and system of texts, the first of which was the Crimean text.

Towards the 60th anniversary of Dmitriy Borisovich Nikityuk

On December 26, 2022, Dmitry Borisovich Nikityuk, a well-known anatomist and anthropologist, academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists, celebrated his 60th birthday.
 The stages of D.B. Nikityuks scientific way in the field of morphological exocrinology, dedicated to the functional morphology of the mucous membrane glands are described. His works have allowed to describe and prove the regularities of morphogenesis of these anatomical formations in the field of anatomo-anthropometric approaches to estimate the nutritional status of healthy and sick people, which is particularly important for revealing the constitutional predisposition to development of a number of alimentary-dependent diseases.

Computation of the Balance of Monovalent Ion Fluxes in the U937 Cell as an Example of a Proliferating Animal Cell

This paper was prepared by Alexey A. Vereninov for an online presentation in connection with his 90th birthday. Unfortunately, his health did not allow him to take part in this online meeting, but he hoped that his presentation would still be published. To our deep regret, he passed away on July 5, 2022. All his life, A. Vereninov worked at the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences where, from 1986 to 2019, he headed the Laboratory of Cell Physiology. Alexey Vereninov was interested in answering the fundamental questions regarding ionic homeostasis in animal cells. In the last years of his life, he became particularly interested in the quantitative analysis of monovalent ion fluxes through the cell membrane. The calculation algorithm was developed by Alexey together with his brother Igor A. Vereninov, professor at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University. The results of their work in recent years are summarized in this paper.

Editorial of special issue for Detlef W. Bahnemann on the occasion of his 70th birthday

In honor of Prof. Dr. Detlef W. Bahnemann's 70th birthday and his distinguished and continuous contributions in semiconductor photocatalysis and nanotechnology, a Special Issue (SI) has been successfully organized, comprising 5 review articles and 34 research articles contributed by his colleagues, collaborators, friends, and former group members from over 30 countries on five continents. It covers the hottest topics in heterogeneous semiconductor photo(electro)catalysis, including novel photocatalysts and photo(electro)catalytic processes, mechanism study, activity evaluation method, applications of photo(electro)catalytic technology for environmental remediation, disinfection, solar fuel generation, and CO2 reduction. We highlight the insightful findings in these excellent contributions, and believe that this virtual SI presents the research frontiers in semiconductor photo(electro)catalysis. Additionally, in this Editorial, we provide a comprehensive overview of Prof. Bahnemann's education, career experiences, and remarkable research achievements.

Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? Lessons from ordoliberalism

James Buchanan would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. This serves as an inspiration to look at the future of public choice and the question of how much normativity public choice can bear. In our analysis we draw parallels between public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source in the Freiburg School of Economics). We argue that the reception of ordoliberalism exemplifies easy-to-grasp pitfalls that should be taken seriously. We anchor the future agenda of public choice in a solid individualist perspective. Similar to ordoliberalism, public choice will have to clarify its relation to normative economics. The effects of rules and institutions and their working properties should be thoroughly analyzed empirically. The role of ideas is important for the normative foundation of both public choice/ constitutional economics and ordoliberalism, and is rooted in normative individualism. It provides a benchmark by which rules and institutions can be judged as favorable.

Jason G. H. Londt: A giant of South African entomology

To celebrate the 80th birthday of Jason G.H. Londt, we present a collection of articles in his honour. This introduction includes a summary of Jason’s life and career, an overview of the articles in the Festschrift, lists of his scientific and popular publications and a list of species named in his honour. Jason’s contribution to Mecoptera and Asilidae research in the Afrotropics is discussed, highlighting the impressive contributions he has made to the taxonomy, biology and ecology in both groups.

Special issue celebrating Professor Yu Wang's 80th birthday

Prof. Yu Wang [the middle of the front row] with friends and colleagues at her 70th birthday symposium and celebration, 2013 It is our great pleasure to organize this special issue of the Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society (JCCS) dedicated to the occasion of Professor Yu Wang's 80th birthday. We do appreciate all authors' great efforts in this special issue. Professor Wang was born in June 1943 and grew up in Hsinchu, Taiwan. She received her bachelor degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1966 and her Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois, USA in 1973. After completing her post-doctoral research at State University of New York Buffalo for 1 year and assistant researcher at National Research Council of Canada for 5 years, Professor Wang returned to Taiwan and took up her teaching post as an associate professor at NTU in 1979. She became a full professor in 1981 and served as the Dean of the College of Science from 2002 to 2005. She retired in 2013 as an Emeritus Professor and continued to be active in the community. In addition, she served as the Director General at Department of Math and Physical Science, NSC (1998–2001), and as the Vice President of Academia Sinica, 2014–2016. Professor Wang is a world-renowned scientist for her frontier research on crystallography and chemistry. Several pioneer works have been accomplished during her research career. Two areas are worth mentioning: Charge density studies by combining highly accurate X-ray diffraction data and relevant molecular calculations lead to obtain the insights of chemical bonding and physical properties. This area is expanded now to Quantum Crystallography. The other is her works in spin crossover system, where she accomplished a single crystal to single-crystal spin transition via photo excitation (Photo Crystallography). She has published more than 300 papers. Because of her excellence in research, Professor Wang was awarded as an academician of Academia Sinica in 2010. In addition to her research, she also made a great deal of contributions to both local and international academic communities. She played an important role in the development of local crystallographic society and was instrumental in helping Taiwan become a member of IUCr since 1996. She is reputed as the “Mother of crystallography in Taiwan.” Over the years, she served on several prestigious crystallographic societies: Chairman of Crystallographic Committee, Academia Sinica, Taipei (1995–2003), Commission Member of CSMD, IUCr (1996–2002), the President of Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) (2002–2004), and Chairman of CSMD, IUCr (2005–2008). She also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Chemical Society, co-published by Wiley in 2006–2014. In addition to her scientific achievement, Professor Wang is also an excellent educator. She is the most gifted educator I have ever known. She always gives her students the best ever-ending love and enthusiasm. Being her student is our greatest reward. To celebrate Professor Wang's 80th birthday, we dedicate this special issue of the JCCS to her. There are 30 cutting-edge articles in this issue contributed from her former students, colleagues, and friends over the years. We are grateful to all authors who have endeavored to bring about a refreshing novelty in this special issue. Dr. Kuan-Jiuh Lin Chairman and Lifetime Distinguished Professor Department of Chemistry National Chung Hsing University Dr. Hwo-Shuenn Sheu Scientist National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center Dr. Biing-Chiau Tzeng Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry National Chung Cheng University

Cover: Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 5/2023

It is our great pleasure to publish this special issue of the Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society (JCCS) dedicated to the occasion of Professor Yu Wang's 80th birthday. There are thirty cutting‐edge articles in this issue contributed from her former students, colleagues, and friends over the years. We are grateful to all authors who have endeavored to bring about a refreshing novelty in this special issue.image

Perface: Congratulations on the 80th Birthday of Academician ZHENG ShiLing

Perface: Congratulations on the 80th Birthday of Academician ZHENG ShiLing

On the 90th Birthday of I. A. Ibragimov

Recognition of the 90th birthday of Il'dar Abdullovich Ibragimov, world-renowned specialist in probability and mathematical statistics.

Prof. Alexey V. Konarev (celebrating the 75th birthday)

On January 16, 2023 we celebrated the 75th birthday of Professor Alexey V. Konarev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, a renowned scientist in the sphere of plant biochemistry and molecular biology, one of the eldest staff members of VIR.