Alarming History of Famous and Difficult Patients by Richard Gordon

Professor Vadim V. Annenkov earned his Ph.D. from Irkutsk Institute of Organic Chemistry Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1989 and Doctor of Science (Doctor Habilitation) in Polymer Chemistry from Irkutsk State University in 2002. He works in the Limnological Institute (Siberian Branch of RAS) from 2004. He is the author of about 150 scientific papers, 18 patents, 120 abstracts of conferences Citation Index according to WOS is 824, H-index is 15.

Professor J. Seckbach is a retired senior academician at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and did a post doctorate in the Division of Biology at Caltech, in Pasadena, CA. He served at Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA, USA, as the first selected Chair for the Louisiana Sea Grant and Technology transfer. Professor Joseph Seckbach has edited over 40 scientific books and about 140 scientific articles.

Richard Gordon

Richard Gordon's involvement with diatoms goes back to 1970 with his capillarity model for their gliding motility, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. He later worked on a diffusion limited aggregation model for diatom morphogenesis, which led to the first paper ever published on diatom nanotechnology in 1988. He organized the first workshop on diatom nanotech in 2003. His other research is on computed tomography algorithms, HIV/AIDS prevention, and embryogenesis. See: https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gordon_(theoretical_biologist).