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9Jun

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles

Wali Akhtar Nadwi, professor

Wali Akhtar Nadwi, who was serving as the head of the Arabic department at the University of Delhi, succumbed to Covid-19 on June 9, 2020. As many as six private hospitals in Delhi and Noida had allegedly refused to admit the professor stating various reasons. On June 2, Akhtar had developed a fever flowing which the members of his family approached at least six hospitals including Fortis Hospital, Delhi’s Bansal Hospital, Moolchand Hospital and Holy Family hospital in Delhi and Kailash Hospital in neighbouring Noida in UP. The hospitals allegedly refused admission to him. While some hospitals refused admission citing non-availability of beds others said that they were not admitting patients having fever, according to a report by Muslim Mirror. Akhtar’s family finally managed to secure...

7Jun

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Germany, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Dietmar Seyferth, professor

Dietmar Seyferth ‑ an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – succumbed to Covid-19 on June 6, 2020. He published widely on topics in organometallic chemistry and was the founding editor of the journal Organometallics. Seyferth was born in 1929 in Chemnitz, Germany and received his college education at the University of Buffalo. His PhD thesis dealt with main group chemistry under the mentorship of Eugene G. Rochow at Harvard. He spent his entire academic career at MIT, focusing initially on organophosphorus, organosilicon, and organomercury chemistry. He also contributed to organocobalt chemistry and organoiron chemistry, e.g. the popularization of Fe2S2(CO)6. He died on Saturday, June 6, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19....

24May

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India, Medics, Profiles

Dr Jitendra Nath Pande, professor

Jitendra Nath Pande or J. N. Pande ‑ Professor & Head of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Studies (AIIMS) – passed away after contracting Covid-19 virus on 23 May 2020. He was working as Senior Consultant (Medicine) at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research, New Delhi. Pande was born in Shikohabad, India, to Shri Madan Mohan Pande and Smt. Kamla Devi Pande. His parents were from Uttar Pradesh. He was younger brother of Prof. Gyan N Pande, Emeritus Professor, Swansea University and President, International Centre for Computational Engineering. Pande obtained both his MBBS in 1963 and MD (Medicine) in 1966 degrees from AIIMS, New Delhi. Pande specialised in Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. He treated many famous personalities fro...

23May

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Egypt, Medics, Profiles

Dr Amro Abed, Professor

Dr Amro Abed, a Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Alexandria University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt, passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Please help us in adding details.

25Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Russia

Igor Goncharov, Professor

Igor Goncharov – a Professor at Head of Department, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation (1996), Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia – passed away on 24 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Igor was 81 years old. Born in a family of doctors. He studied at the I Moscow Medical Institute. I.M.Sechenov , who graduated in medical business in 1967, also graduated from clinical residency at the Moscow City Institute of Emergency Medicine. Sklifosovsky specializing in Traumatology and Orthopedics in 1969. During his studies, he worked in ambulance, in 1971 he defended his thesis. In 1972 he entered the IBMP, where he headed the department and laboratory, and, as indicated on the website of the IBMP, was a leading specialist of the institute in the f...

7Apr

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Israel, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Mark Steiner, professor

Mark Steiner - an American-born Israeli professor of philosophy. He taught philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - died on April 6, 2020 due to COVID-19. Mark Steiner was born in the Bronx, New York. He graduated from Columbia University , and studied at Oxford as a Fulbright Fellow and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1972. Steiner taught at Columbia from 1970 – 77. Steiner is best known for his book The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem, in which he attempted to explain the historical utility of mathematics in physics. The book may be considered an extended meditation on the issues raised by Eugene Wigner's article The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. Steiner is also the aut...