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Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin ve Geçmişten Geleceğe Türk-İslam Bilimine Katkıları

Fuat Sezgin, Türkiye’de başladığı bilim hayatına, zorunlu nedenlerle Almanya’da devam etmiş olan bir Türk bilim adamıdır. Dünyanın çeşitli yerlerinden temin ettiği Arapça yazma eserlere dayanarak Müslümanların bilime yaptıkları katkıları ve bilimsel alandaki başarılarını ortaya koymuştur. Böylece “bilimdeki tüm gelişmeler, Batılılar tarafından gerçekleştirilmiştir” algısının yanlış olduğunu kanıtlarıyla ortaya koymuştur. Buna karşılık “bilimdeki birçok gelişme, 9.-16. Asırlar arasında Müslümanlar tarafından gerçekleştirilmiş ve Batılılar da onlardan öğrenmişlerdir” anlayışını belgeleriyle ispat etmiştir. Fuat Sezgin’in yaptığı araştırmalara göre, birçok bilimin temelinde bulunan kimya bilimi, Cabir b. Hayyan isimli bir Müslüman bilim adamı tarafından icat edilmiştir. Matematikteki sıfır rakamı, bilim dünyasına İbni Heysem tarafından kazandırılmıştır. Logaritmanın kurucusu, el-Harezmî’dir. İlk haritalar, Müslümanlar tarafından çizilmiştir. İslam dünyasında birçok bilim dalında birden öne çıkan yönlü bilim adamları yetişmiştir. Örneğin Bîrûnî, matematikçi olmasının yanı sıra aynı zamanda coğrafyacıdır; matematiksel coğrafyayı bağımsız bir disiplin haline getirmiştir. Küresel trigonometriyi hocalarının buluşlarına dayanarak bir bilim dalı olarak kuran kişi, Bîrûnî’dir. Diğer taraftan Bîrûnî, ilaçlar konusundaki donanımıyla “Eczacılığın Babası” olarak tanınmıştır.Çok yönlü bilim adamlarımızdan biri de İbni Sînâ’dır. El-Kânûn fi’t-Tıb isimli eseri Ortaçağ’da defalarca Latince’ye çevrilen İbn-i Sînâ, tıbba getirdiği yeniliklerle eş-Şeyh er-Reis unvanıyla tanınmıştır. O, aynı zamanda felsefe konusunda da Batılıların takip ettikleri bir şahsiyettir.Fuat Sezgin, dünyanın çeşitli ülkelerinde bulunan Arapça yazma eserleri toplayarak bunlar hakkında bilimsel çalışmalar yaptığı gibi, bu eserlerdeki teknik aletleri kitaplarda anlatıldığı tarzda birebir yaparak Frankfurt’a açtığı Arap-İslam Bilimler Tarihi Enstitüsü Müzesi’nde sergilemiştir. Başlangıçta 30 kadar eser yapmayı planlamasına rağmen zamanla toplam 500 eser yapıp sergilemeyi başarmıştır. Türkiye’de de böyle bir müze açması yolunda kendisine iletilen tekliflere olumlu bakan Sezgin, Gülhane Parkı’nda 800 eserden oluşan yeni bir müze daha kurmuş ve adını da İslam Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi Müzesi olarak koymuştur.Sezgin, bu çalışmalarıyla Türk-İslam dünyasının yeniden kendine güven sağlamasında öncü olmuştur.

Kenneth Clark Butler (1939–2018)

Kenneth Clark Butler (1939–2018)

Zoya Il'inichna Glezer (1929–2006): on the 90th anniversary of the birth

Published brief memoirs of the scientists and colleagues Ahmet’ev M.A., Nikolaeva I.A., Alexandrova G.N., Borisov B.A., Benyamovsky V.N., Bugrova E.M., Gorbatkina I.E., Iosifova Y. I., Zhamoida A.I., Tabachnikova I. P., Schick C.M., Lobacheva S.V., Grunden E.L., and Rosen S. about a wonderful person, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, the outstanding researcher on paleonthology and stratigraphy of the USSR and Russia Zoya Il’inichna Glezer, and own memories about the communication and cooperation with her are presented here.

Sixty years of spectroscopic research: a tribute to Professor Edward B. M. Steers

It was a very sad day when the unbelievable news reached us that Prof. Edward Steers of London Metropolitan University had passed away. He was a major figure in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS). This text is intended as a brief overview of Edward’s career in science, his activities in organizing meetings and research networks focused on GDS and the many-sided promotion of the field, including lecturing, his work with graduate students and post-docs, and the various research projects on which he collaborated with many colleagues throughout Europe. He was widely respected and admired for his keen scientific insight and encyclopedic knowledge and he was universally loved as a genuine and wonderful person.

ADP-Ribosylation Reactions in Animals, Plants, and Bacteria

PARP2017, a meeting on ADP-ribosylation reactions, was held in Budapest (17–19 May 2017).[...]

In Memoriam: Professor Ignacy GLOZA

On 4th November 2016 Professor Ignacy Gloza passed away. He was a wonderful person, still full of creative powers, committed to researchwork in hydroacoustics carried out in cooperation with Polish and foreign research institutes.

Remembering Joan (Jan) Mary Anderson (1932-2015).

Joan Mary Anderson, known to most people as Jan, was born on May 12, 1932 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She died on August 28, 2015 in Canberra, Australia. To celebrate her life, we present here a brief biography, some comments on her discoveries in photosynthesis during a career spanning more than half a century, and reminiscences from family and friends. We remember this wonderful person who had an unflagging curiosity, creative ability to think laterally, enthusiasm, passion, generosity and love of color and culture.

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Larry L. Hench, a wonderful person, researcher and scholar in whose memory this issue of the International Journal of Applied Glass Science is dedicated. He was thought by many to be a man for all seasons; a classical renaissance person, and a wonderful ambassador for all involved in glass science and healthcare. He represented all that is best in science and engineering and leaves a legacy exemplifying vision, creativity, achievement, kindness, and dedication to the causes for the betterment of mankind. Photo credit ‐ the American Ceramic Society. image

Editorial: Inorganic Biomaterials.

EDITORIAL article Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 21 January 2016Sec. Biomaterials Volume 4 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2016.00002

Remembering James Alan Bassham (1922-2012).

James Alan Bassham, known to many as Al, was born on November 26, 1922, in Sacramento, California (CA), USA. He died on November 19, 2012, in El Cerrito, CA. To celebrate his life at his 3rd death anniversary, we present here a brief biography, comments on his discoveries, but most importantly, remembrances from family and friends; we remember this wonderful and modest person who had played a major pivotal role in the discoveries that led to what he would like to call the P(hotosynthetic) C(arbon) R(eduction) cycle, known to many as the Calvin Cycle, the Calvin-Benson Cycle, or the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle. Based on a personal request by Bassham himself to one of us (Govindjee), we refrain from including his name in the cycle-in recognition of his many students and associates he would have liked to honor.

In Memoriam: Slavik Jablan 1952–2015

After a long and brave battle with a serious illness, our dear friend and colleague Slavik Jablan passed away on 26 February 2015. [...]

Alberto Gulino MD, PhD (1952-2014).

Alberto Gulino passed away on November 25, 2014. He will be dearly missed by family, friends and colleagues. Alberto was an enthusiastic scientist who provided important insights into several fields and critical support to young scientists. After graduating in medicine and surgery and specializing in endocrinology at the Catholic University in Rome (Italy), Alberto began his scientific career as a PhD student in biochemistry and developmental biology at the University of Paris. Following his doctoral degree he moved on to become a research associate at the Foundation for Hormone Research in Paris in the group of J Pasqualini, where he addressed the early role of estrogens and of selective estrogen receptor modulators. Alberto, subsequently, returned to his beloved Rome as an assistant professor at Sapienza University, where he continued work on steroid hormones, investigating the biochemical features of nuclear receptor complexes and their role in immunomodulation and tumorigenesis. Following a period at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, USA, Alberto was appointed associate professor at the University of L'Aquila (Italy), then full professor and, later on, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. Alberto was also heavily involved in education being director of the PhD program in experimental medicine, director of the school of specialization in oncology, and director of the department of experimental medicine. During these years he guided the transformation of the Faculty of Medicine at L'Aquila into a modern and enterprising structure, favoring the return of talented abroad-trained Italian researchers. Back in Rome, at Sapienza University, Alberto's contagious enthusiasm for science and excellence led him to become director of the Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, director of the PhD Program in molecular medicine, and head of the imaging and treatment of brain cancer and the stem cell program of the Italian Institute of Technology at Sapienza University. His abilities to organize scientific events can also be highlighted by the superb and intense Hedgehog meeting he organized in Rome, at a fantastic small hotel facing Palazzo Farnese near Campo de' Fiori and Piazza Navona. The comment of the younger students was that it was ‘terrible' since the talks and discussions were so good that they did not have time to do all the things they had planned to do in Rome. Alberto Gulino's scientific contributions have been notable in different fields but we wish to highlight his work on the mechanism of acetylation and modulation of Gli proteins,1 the regulation of GLI by Numb,2 as well as his work on the regulation of HH signaling by miRNAs.3 In all three works Alberto and his team explored new territory and advanced the field by revealing intricate mechanisms using state of the art genetic, biochemical and cellular analyses. These findings now provide a fertile ground for continued progress in the understanding of the regulation and biological importance of HH signaling. Alberto was exceedingly generous and humble, keeping a healthy mixture of skepticism and trust. It will be impossible to forget his love of science and his style, where complex expositions crystallized in important insights and solid work. Alberto had a particular relational warmth and was admired by many of his coworkers, who saw in him a guiding and protecting figure. It will also be impossible to forget being a guest of Alberto in Rome, dining at superb small local restaurants where he and his wife, Isabella Screpanti, were known by name by the owners and the cooks, or visiting magnificent monuments or small streets and listening to Isabella tell stories of Rome, as only Romans can tell. Alberto was an important figure in Italian and European science, and a wonderful person. He will be missed at home and abroad by many friends and colleagues. We thank his students Enrico De Smaele, Elisabetta Ferreti, Lucia Di Marcotullio and Luca Canettieri for biographical information.

Bennett Reimer

In Memoriam: Bennett Reimer Forest Hansen In late afternoon on January 9, 2014, family members, colleagues, former students, and other friends met at Northwestern University to reflect upon and honor the life of Bennett Reimer, who had died from cancer on November 18, 2013 at the age of 81. The printed program fittingly called it a “Memorial Celebration,” because that is what it was. Fine wine and savory hors d’oeuvres were served, a woodwind quartet of Bienen School of Music graduate students played Reimer favorites, and Beth Hebert, Bennett’s life partner of 27 years, greeted every person as they entered the hall. Reimer would have approved of the exuberant tastefulness of the event. He would probably have blushed and demurred, however, when in the formal part of the program his colleagues, daughters, and former students praised him in recalling specific occasions of his mentoring, inspiring, modeling, guiding, collaborating, and originating. (In his writing Reimer loved such extensive discriminatory lists.) Included among the expressions of respect and affection were these words by Estelle Jorgensen, who could not be present, read by Randall Allsup: [End Page 101] We have lost a wonderful person who lived life richly and made an outstanding contribution to the field of music education and beyond. In honor of his work as a philosopher of music education, among the many facets of his professional life, the Philosophy of Music Education Review will have a special issue devoted to the ideas that he left us, contributed by prominent music educational leaders and writers. Such moments of professional loss leave a rent in our midst that can never quite be patched. Along with our sorrow is our memory of the joy, idealism, and hope that characterized his lived life. We cling collectively to the memories of the blessings he brought us in simply being Bennett. Reimer was born on June 19, 1932 in Brooklyn, where he grew up. He earned a B.S. in music education in 1954 at SUNY at Fredonia and an M.S. (1955) and Ed.D. (1963) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His teaching career started at the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary (1955–57) and continued at Madison College (Harrisburg VA) (1958–1960) and the University of Illinois (1960–65). At Case Western Reserve University (1965–1978), he became chair of the Music Education Department and holder of the Kulas Endowed Chair in Music. Then at Northwestern University he held the John W. Beattie Chair in Music from 1978 until his retirement in 1997. He chaired the Music Education Department there, directed the doctoral program in music education, and founded and directed the Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience—a weekly research forum for graduate students and faculty. Although Reimer had started out as an instructor in clarinet and oboe, musical theory, conducting, and music appreciation, he became a scholar, teacher, and lecturer in the new field of philosophy of music education with a worldwide following and reputation. Reimer was most noted for his seminal A Philosophy of Music Education (1970), which can fittingly be described as the founding document of the discipline. Typically he made revisions for the second edition in 1989 and more radical ones for the third edition in 2003, retitled as A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision. This work has been translated into French, Japanese, and Chinese, and, forthcoming, Greek. He was associated with PMER and the International Society for Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) from their beginnings in 1990. Besides his seminal works, Reimer wrote or co-wrote another twenty books and more than 150 articles, reviews, and book chapters. A few of his book titles indicate the range of his thought, from his early and widely used textbooks The Experience of Music (1971) for college students and Silver Burdett Music for grades 1–8 to his more recent Performing with Understanding: The Challenge of the National Standards for Musical Education (2000), World Musics and Music [End Page 102] Education: Facing the Issues (2002), and Seeking the Significance of Music Education (2009). He was an active participant and leader in a host of other music...

The Feinberg Award Lecture 2013

Thanks to my nominators and the International Stroke Conference program committee for selecting me for this year’s Feinberg award, which I would like to accept on behalf of all the investigators and coordinators who participated in the Warfarin Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease (WASID) trial, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Wingspan registry, and the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) trial. This award is particularly meaningful to me because Bill Feinberg was a member of the original WASID Planning Committee when he passed away. He was a generous collaborator and a wonderful person who is still greatly missed by those of us who knew him. It is a particular honor to receive an award that is named after him. Intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis is an important cause of ischemic stroke particularly in Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics.1–4 Given the racial and ethnic make-up of the world population, intracranial stenosis may be the most common cause of stroke worldwide.4–7 It is also associated with a particularly high risk of recurrent stroke compared with most other stroke subtypes.8 I first became interested in this disease during my residency training at Tufts—New England Medical Center with Lou Caplan and the late Mike Pessin, both master clinicians and teachers, who at the time were describing much of the clinical phenomenology and stroke mechanisms associated with atherosclerosis of the major intracranial arteries.9–12 I owe my fascination with stroke neurology to them. It was during my stroke fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic that Tony Furlan and Cathy Sila, both excellent mentors, stimulated my interest in clinical trials. This was the heyday of some of the most important trials in our field (North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial [NASCET], Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis …

Community pharmacy residency pioneer Rudenko dies at 38

Friends, family, and colleagues were shocked on May 25 when Rudenko, Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy, died suddenly of complications of breast cancer that had been diagnosed only a few days before. As noted in a memorial article on the VCU website, tributes to this leader in one of the nation’s most prominent community pharmacy residency programs soon filled her Facebook page: “I remember her as a student, and she went on to do great things for our profession.” “She was an amazing person with such excitement for life.” “She was such a good professor. Always happy and cheerful.” “Such a wonderful person who touched the lives of so many.” “She was awesome.” “[Amy] was a conscientious student, and the faculty respected and liked her due to her genuine interest in every facet of the pharmacy curriculum and her positive personality traits,” recalled Tom Reinders, Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services at VCU. “She was a great student, a great professor and, above all, a great pharmacist. Most remarkable was her unwavering commitment to community pharmacy practice.” A native of Richmond, Amy Whitaker received her PharmD degree from VCU in 1998 and completed the community pharmacy residency there after graduation. Following a stint at the University of North Carolina, Whitaker returned to Richmond and VCU in 2001 and was involved in student and resident life, serving as faculty advisor to the VCU chapter of the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists and as an expert in medication therapy management in big-box settings. Married less than 4 years before her untimely death, Rudenko is survived by her husband Mike Jr., daughters Olivia Lynn, 2, and Abigail Iryna, then 3 months, parents Barry and Linda Whitaker, and brother Barry Whitaker.

In memory of Lev Abramovich Rivlin

On 26 March 2013, the scientific community suffered a great loss with the passing of Lev Abramovich Rivlin, an outstanding physicist and a wonderful person. Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, professor L.A. Rivlin was the scientific head of the Laboratory of Applied Physics of Moscow State Technical University of Radio-engineering, Electronics and Automation (MIREA) and a member of the editorial board and editorial council of Kvantovaya Elektronika since its foundation.

Toni S Shippenberg

Toni Shippenberg was both a distinguished scientist and a pillar of the NIDA IRP community, having devoted two decades of her life pursuing neuroscience addiction research on behalf of NIDA's mission. She was seen as an influential leader—both nationally and internationally—in the opiate and psychostimulant research areas, and was one of the crown jewels of the IRP. Dr Shippenberg received her BS in Neuroscience from Colgate University in 1979 and earned a PhD in pharmacology in 1985 from the Baylor College of Medicine. She subsequently undertook post-doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Martinsried, Germany, where she would work for 7 years in the field of neuropharmacology, gradually taking on greater leadership roles culminating in the position of Chief of the Drug Abuse Research Unit for the Institute in Munich. In 1992, she joined NIDA in the Preclinical Pharmacology Laboratory as a Senior Staff Fellow and later went on to a Tenure Track position, obtaining tenure in 2001 as a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Integrative Neuroscience Section of the Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch. In 2010, she was appointed as Chief of the newly created Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch before formally stepping down from that position earlier this year due to illness. Toni's contributions to the fields of neuroscience and neuropharmacology over the years were outstanding and are reflected by the high esteem she was held in by colleagues within NIH as well as throughout the United States and abroad. For many years, she held influential positions within the neuroscience community by serving as Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience and on the Editorial Boards of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology. In addition, she served as a reviewer for dozens of extramural and intramural grants, participated on numerous advisory boards, and maintained a myriad of extramural collaborations. Her contributions to the field did not go unnoticed, as the NIH Director appointed her to the prestigious Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) in 2005, a designation allotted to only 500 of the most outstanding scientists within the United States Public Health Service (PHS). In addition, in 2004, she was appointed as an Honorary Professor by the University of Queensland in Australia and also held appointments of Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Medical School and Research Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr Shippenberg was the recipient of numerous awards over the years, including the NIDA/NIH Women Scientist Achievement Award in 2009, a J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in 2008, an Australian Federation Fellow award in 2006, and the NIDA Director's Scientific Merit Award in 1994, 1995, and 1998. Not only was Toni a distinguished neuroscientist, but she was also an exemplary mentor and citizen within the NIH and NIDA communities. Her mentees consistently moved on to successful independent scientific careers at leading institutions around the world, and her fellows invariably lauded her for her availability, knowledge, support, and generosity. Her mentorship abilities were recognized in 2005 when she won an NIH Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award. Furthermore, Toni was extremely generous with her time through service on the NIDA Animal Care and Use Committee, the IRP Promotions and Tenure Committee, and the NIDA Postdoctoral Advisory Committee, not to mention memberships on a host of additional NIH committees. On a personal note, Toni's positive energy, sense of humor, and warm personality will be missed as much as her science. She will be remembered both as a wonderful person and for her contributions to addiction neuroscience.

Interview With Paul R. Lichter, MD

P AUL R. LICHTER, MD, HAS BEEN THE CHAIRman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan since 1978, during which time he has led 2 successful building campaigns and increased his faculty more than 10-fold. G.B.B.: There are numerous examples of departments that have stagnated or declined with a long-term chair, but your department is an exception. To what do your attribute your success? P.R.L.: Hire the best people and let them do what they want to do. Do your best to make sure that they will be team players and that you have a shared vision of what a strong department should be. G.B.B.: When interviewing a new hire, what questions do you ask? P.R.L.: I want to find out as best I can if the person is likely to be easy to get along with, to see how they respond in talking about their life outside of medicine and issues that surround medicine such as conflict of interest and ethics. I also ask myself—and insist that my staff who hire people ask themselves—why this wonderful person is available to me? In other words, we want to be careful not to hire someone who will not work out well simply because we didn’t do very careful and thorough due diligence. G.B.B.: What have you found to be the most useful method of evaluating your direct reports? P.R.L.: For faculty—and those in the professorial tracks each report to me directly—I request a narrative letter to me based on questions that I’ve asked them to address, reviewing their activities of the past year and their goals looking ahead. We meet for an hour to discuss their letter and other issues. For staff direct reports, our institution has a fairly detailed form that the employee completes prior to meeting with their supervisor. We base our discussion on that form but delve into other things too. I’m an easy evaluator, probably a bit too easy. G.B.B.: What is the most important feedback you’ve ever received? P.R.L.: Feedback can have a variety of connotations. For me, in my interactions with people, I try to pay attention not only to what they say but how they say it and how they respond to things I say in response to them. In the end, much of what we do involves communication and I get a lot of feedback that way. There is no particular single instance of feedback that left an impression with me. It’s all helpful. G.B.B.: How do you create, sustain, or change the culture of an organization? P.R.L.: By example and by hiring people who have shared values that are generally consistent with mine. G.B.B.: How do you most effectively motivate your staff? P.R.L.: Being kind— even when what you have to say may not be good news. Praising good work is critical and always being available for e-mails— respond quickly—and visits. When I’m out of town, I do my best to stay in touch every day. G.B.B.: How do you run an effective meeting? P.R.L.: Let others do the talking (ie, listen, even if you don’t agree with what is being said). Try to guide the meeting but don’t stifle others’ comments or opinions. Sometimes that’s difficult when you hear statements that seem off base, but it’s part of the process. G.B.B.:Howdoyoucommunicatewithyouremployees? P.R.L.: By e-mail mostly—either departmentwide or smaller groups or individually. I try to be upbeat in communications. G.B.B.: What are your tips for effective time management? P.R.L.: My strongest tip for time management is not to manage time like I do. I’m very poor at it. However, I’m better than I used to be because I keep telling myself to focus and I try—but often fail—to avoid distractions. G.B.B.: What did you learn from your biggest mistake? P.R.L.: Perhaps my biggest mistake in adult life was not spending enough time at home when my children were young. We ate dinner together, but I missed too many of my daughters’ activities. I am fortunate to have a wife who allows me to work hard and do what I need to do professionally. However, I advise young faculty not to do what I did and to be sure that family time is prioritized. I support the family life of my faculty—their vacations, their pregnancies and deliveries, their maternity leaves. In the end, work is work, but family is so much more and valuing it is part of our professional duty because it makes us better all around. G.B.B.: Who are your role models or mentors? P.R.L.: My father, a family physician, obviously had influence on my becoming a physician. He taught me that Paul R. Lichter, MD

Eelco Wijdicks: a neurocritical appraisal

Eelco Wijdicks: a neurocritical appraisal

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