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Eugene Parker, the father of heliophysics, passed away on 15 March 2022. Through his discovery of the solar wind, Parker built the foundation for our understanding of the Sun and its influence on and beyond the Solar System.
John Hawley, a major pioneer in numerical astrophysics, passed away on 12 December 2021. Besides having been outstanding as a scientist, teacher and administrator, he will always be ‘the funniest man in astrophysics’ to many who knew him.
