We remember those who left us in the recent past

We begin with a quote from John Waller (2002): “No scientist is an island. Instead, most are members of tightly linked networks of highly specialized researchers who depend on others’ expertise, advice and experience for their own ideas to make any progress at all. As well as involving conflict and controversy, good science is necessarily collaborative and cooperative.” It is this obvious thought, as well as the fact that the progress in our field would depend on what we have already learnt from others, that is behind this brief presentation. Here, we remember briefly, with just a few words, a few scientists who left us during 2016–2018. Our list is incomplete. In alphabetical order, those mentioned below are: Jalal Aliyev (Azerbaijan National Academy of Science, Azerbaijan), Klaus Apel (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), Thomas (Tom) T. Bannister (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA), Christoph Beck (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany), Frederick (Fred) L. Crane (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA), George Feher (University of California at San Diego, CA, USA), Ulrich Heber (University of Wurzburg, Germany), Andre T. Jagendorf (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA), Otto Kandler (Ludwig Maxmilian University, Munich, Germany), Vyacheslav (Slava) Klimov (Institute of Photosynthesis, Pushchino, Russia), David (Dave) Krogmann (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA), Shmuel Malkin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel), Shigetoh Miyachi (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), Joseph Neumann (Telaviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel), Itzhak Ohad