Julius London, an outstanding contributor to the atmospheric sciences, a former chair of the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) Department at the University of Colorado, and a Fellow of AMS, died in his sleep on 25 February 2009, just one month shy of his 92nd birthday.
In October 2008, two great radiation scientists, Joachim Joseph and Anthony Slingo, passed away in the same week.
It is with great sadness that we learned of Kirill Kondratyev's passing on May 1, 2006.
Our entire offce was deeply distressed to hear about the untimely death of our good colleague Guy Rochard in early December 2005.
Much to our regret we must inform you that Professor Inge Dirmhirn passed away.