Jan Vlachy has died

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Yes, Jan was a very nice colleague.

 

I met him first at a meeting in Bielefeld shortly after the tumbling of the
Berlin wall, organized by Peter Weingart at the ITZ as a meeting with
Eastern-European colleagues (who we did not know in person until then). I
remember that I arrived late in the evening after a long day with education
and everything was dark. Then, I saw someone behind a window who reacted to
my waiving and he invited me for tea and goat cheese. These were the only
things he was eating. Later I understood that Jan always brings his own
food. He usually traveled by car with a lot of food in the trunk.

 

Jan's strength was that he had marvelous control over the data. He gave the
impression that he had filed all the paper copies in one of these castles in
Bohemia. We met over the years irregularly; he told me the last time - at
the meeting in September in Leiden - that he had sometimes given up on the
field because of the weight that the bureaucrats in Brussels sometimes lay
on their methods of evaluation. "They have invested so much in error, that
they cannot back off." They once hired him Brussels for three months, but I
don't believe that this was the happiest period in his life.

 

I know that he was planning a workshop in Prague, in March 2011 or so. I
promised to attend. 

We will miss him.

 

Best wishes, 

Loet

 

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Loet Leydesdorff 

Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), 
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111
 <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> loet at leydesdorff.net ;
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 

 

From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Enrique Wulff
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:20 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Jan Vlachy has died

 


His contribution:
"Information Science and Science Studies (An Experience of 1965-1992)"
[FID 46th Conference and Congress. Madrid, 22-30 October 1992]
should be remembered.
With respects,
Enrique Wulff Barreiro.




At 18:04 23/11/2010, you wrote:



I was informed by a colleague from Prague that Jan Vlachy, the Czech
physicist and winner in 1989 of the Derek Price Medal in Scientometrics has
died in Berlin. 
 
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