Werner Reichardt

[Jack Cowan]

It is with great regret that I have to announce the death of Werner  
Reichardt.  Werner was a student in Berlin at the outbreak of WW II  
and fought against the Nazis in the German underground. He was  
captured by the Gestapo but saved by the Russians shortly before his  
scheduled execution. Werner began his career as a post doc with Max  
Delbruck at CalTech, but first became known for his work with Bernard  
Hassenstein on motion detection.  He set up the Max Planck Institute  
for Biological Cybernetics in the early 60s and founded the journal  
Kybernetik, now known as Biological Cybernetics.  He produced a great  
deal of excellent pioneering work on Fly vision, especially with  
Tommy Poggio.  He will be greatly missed by his many friends, of whom  
I count myself fortunate to have been one.    Jack Cowan