These volumes are of interest to bioscientists and to historians alike. Many authors, both as individuals and as scientists, lived and worked in the 'age of extremes' in the so-called 'short 20th century', and yet contributed significantly to the unprecedented development of life sciences in this period. These 'oral histories', set against a backdrop of the Second World War, Holocaust, and Stalinist terror, are thus of interest and relevance to older and younger generations alike. Perhaps the lessons learned from these first-hand accounts may contribute in some way to ensuring that future...

The present volume contains the proceedings of the 23rd Mos- bach Colloquium on "Protein-Protein Interactions". It includes the paper by Prof. S. LIFSON who unfortunately was unable to attend. Discussions were included whenever possible in order to make the complete proceedings accessible to the future reader. The colloquium was generously supported by the firms who are corporate members of the Gesellschaft fur Biologische Chemie. Dr. W. B. GRATZER and Dr. L. JAENICKE, as weIl as some of the invited speakers, were a tremendous help in preparing the program and we wish to thank them for their...

This volume contains the contributions of the 10th Symposium on Analytical Ultracentrifugation, held in Regensburg, Germany, on March 13th to 14th, 1997. Topics in the following fields were presented: Technical innovations; innovations in data analysis; modeling; biological systems; ions and polyelectrolytes; polymers, colloids, supramolecular systems; emulsions, gels, and dispersions; interacting systems and assemblies.