In Memoriam: Jere Mead (1920-2009)

摘要

Jere mead did something very unusual. He established a whole new field of research. Respiratory Mechanics was his invention. Sure, there had been sporadic forays into the field beforehand, but nothing systematic. He created, developed, nurtured, and maintained this field while stimulating thousands of scientists from around the world to join him on his remarkable voyage of discovery. The luckiest of these scientists were those who had the opportunity to play with him. I was one of them. His philosophy was that research was fun. If it was not, it was too much like work. In playing together, he changed my life forever. Among the multitude of reasons that I am overwhelmingly grateful to him is that the joy of discovery has been a major part of my life. This lessens the sadness of his passing, but the sadness is still profound.