- Tributes to pioneers in bioenergetics - wandering in the garden of memories
Last update: 2024-05-06
The community of bioenergetics regrets the loss of pioneers in bioenergetics. Most recently Marten Wickström, Sergio Papa, Stuart Ferguson.
Renowned scientists pay ‘Tributes to pioneers in bioenergetics': In contrast to Special Issues with a closure date, the BEC Publication Series (Gold Open Access) will continue to invite authors to contribute with a manuscript to the 'garden of memories' – Living Communications. This series is intended to be educational and provide insights into the minds and lives of pioneers in bioenergetics. Scientists and students should be alert of intellectual and experimental past developments that shape our ways of thinking. Tributes to pioneers in bioenergetics will provide a fresh look at concepts in a state of flow rather than as fixed paradigms, which tend to be forgotten or distorted without 'wandering in the garden of memories'.
Who qualifies as 'pioneer'? The current list reflects bias in scientific history: lack of compensation for unequal gender opportunities, science networks centered on Europe and North America. Should 'Tributes to pioneers' be restricted to recognition after death? How do we define the field of bioenergetics? Bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts are center stage, thus energy transformation by bioblasts is the core topic of bioenergetics. Support us by paying a tribute to your pioneers in bioenergetics, to properly expand the recognition of pioneers and their vital contributions to science and humanity.
» Mitochondria and bioblasts: Made history
A tribute to Giuseppe Attardi (1923-2008)
- » Nature
A tribute to Andrew A Benson (1917-2015)
A tribute to Paul D Boyer (1918-2018)
A tribute to Melvin Calvin (1911-1997)
A tribute to Britton Chance (1913-2010)
- » Brit
A tribute to Lars Ernster (1920-1998)
A tribute to Stuart J Ferguson (-2024)
A tribute to David Ezra Green (1910-1983)
A tribute to Bernhard Kadenbach (1933-2021)
- Communicated by Sebastian Vogt
A tribute to David Keilin (1887-1963)
A tribute to Martin J Kushmerick (1937-2019)
A tribute to Albert Lester Lehninger (1917-1986)
- » Nature
A tribute to Peter Dennis Mitchell (1920-1992)
A tribute to Sergio Papa (-2024)
- » CV
- Communicated by Nazzarreno Capitanio
A tribute to Tullio Pozzan (1949-2022)
- » Academia Europaea
- Communicated by Ole Pederson
A tribute to Efraim Racker (1913-1991)
- » Cornell
A tribute to Bengt Saltin (1935-2014)
A tribute to Gottfried Schatz (1936-2015)
A tribute to Vladimir P Skulachev (1935-2023)
A tribute to Edward Charles Slater (1917-2016)
- » ASBMB
A tribute to Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986)
A tribute to Andrey D Vinogradov (1942-2021)
- Communicated by Alexander Galkin
A tribute to Mårten KF Wikström (1945-2024)
- » Helsinki Institute of Life Science
- Communicated by Stuchebrukhov Alexei
A tribute to Lech Wojtczak (1926-2019)
Dear authors
- See BEC author guidelines
- Please submit a short summary on pioneers in bioenergetics (max. 250 words), which may be different from the summary of your manuscript.
- Manuscripts will be processed, peer reviewed, and published on a rolling basis.
- Multiple manuscripts are welcome paying a tribute to a particular pioneer.
- Please suggest authors who should be contacted for additional contributions to the BEC Series.
- With many thanks for your interest and contributions,
- Erich Gnaiger
- Editor-in-chief: Bioenergetics Communications