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We present a short biography and brief review of contributions of professor Mirjana Vukićević-Karabin to the development of astrophysics education at the University of Belgrade and to the research in physics of the Earth ionosphere and the Sun. The bibliography of her papers is given as well. We hope that the review of the two aspects of her work will elucidate her important role in the development of astrophysics in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A biography for advertising executive Seymour Banks from Leo Burnett Co. is presented. The article explains that Banks' most important quality is that he is a working professional. Beyond his role at Leo Burnet Co., Banks is also an educator of advertising and marketing at the University of Chicago. He is also an author of many well-known texts within his field.

The article presents a career profile for Patrick Lo. Lo finished a Masteral degree in Arts in Design Management from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004, Master of Library and Information Science from McGill University in Canada, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University in Canada. Lo has presented research papers, and reports on humanities, education, and library science in various countries including at the Library of Congress in the U.S., Austrian National Library in Australia, and National Library of France in Paris.

A biography of Shi Yafeng, an academician and the father of glaciology in China is presented. Shi began as a young geomorphologist and became a legendary glaciologist with 50 years of contributions to glaciological science. Shi Yafeng has been head of the Glaciology and Geocryology Division in the Institute of Geography. He was born in March 1919 in Haimen City, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Department of Geography, Zhejiang University in 1942.

A biography of Gurii Nikolaevich Savin, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviets Republic's member, is presented. Savin was born in Vesyegonsk in Russia on February 1, 1907. He studied at the Mathematics Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. His scientific effort was focused on solid mechanics. He became a professor, director of academic institute, vice president of the Academy of Sciences and winner of Stalin Prize in science and engineering.

The article focuses on the attempt to use the technique of the sociology of knowledge in an investigation of the life and writings of William Graham Sumner, professor of political and social science at Yale from 1872 to 1910. Throughout his work is found a constant emphasis on the desirability of the practice of these virtues--the constant renunciation of the present in favor of the future, human fore sight, hard work, self-denial, industry, temperance, prudence, frugality. So also a constant depreciation of these vices--an appetite for luxury, vice, sloth, dithyrambic rhetoric, lack of thrift, laziness. This complex of value-attitudes is the ethic of intra-worldly asceticism. The problem, then, of explaining the relationship between class position and intra-worldly asceticism in the life of Sumner is a social psychological problem. Intra-wordly asceticism becomes the dependent variable, class position an independent variable. His life represents a success story of social ascent, emancipation from a working-class milieu and the rise of an intellectual to the role of a nationally prominent political professor.

A biography of Sandra M. Díaz, a professor of community and ecosystems ecology at Córdoba National University in Argentina, is presented. She was born in Bell Ville, a small city in central Argentina and studied biology at the Córdoba National University. She explores the influence of the chemical and physical traits of plants like size, nutrient content of leaves and palatability to herbivores on the planet's response to the environment.

A biography of Richard Conway, a professor of Cornell University is presented. He was born on December 12, 1931 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of varsity letter and an endowed chairman from Cornell. He was one of the founders of Cornell's Department of Computer Science and become the first Emerson Electric Professor of Manufacturing Management. He was known for his important research contributions in three areas of computer operations and programming.

A biography of Vadim Aleksandrovich Davankov, the honored scientist of the Russian Federation, is presented. He was born on November 20, 1937 in Moscow and studied at Dresden Technical University. He then enrolled at the Institute of Organoelement Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). During his tenure as professor at RAS, his accomplishments include the head of the laboratory of stereochemistry of adsoption processes, doctor of chemistry, and a famous expert in chromatography.

Presents a biography of Boris Grigor'evich Derendyaev, chemistry professor and head of the Research Center of Chemical Information Sciences in Russia. Educational background; His contributions to the investigation of the structure and properties of aromatic compounds, and of dynamic intermolecular processes; His writings; Achievements.

Presents a biography of Rashida Mukhamet-Fatikhovna Salikhdzhanova, Doctor of Science in Engineering, and Professor of Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electrons, and Automation in Moscow, Russia. Educational background; Her contributions to the theory and practice of voltammetry; Achievements.