Eugene Garfield: 1925–2017ILLUSTRATION BY ERICA P. JOHNSON
—Vitek Tracz, publisher of Faculty of 1000 and former co-owner of The Scientist, on the passing of Eugene Garfield, the scientometrics pioneer who launched The Scientist in 1986 (February 27)
—Newly confirmed US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, on the CNBC program Squawk Box (March 9)
—Former Vice President Joe Biden, in a speech delivered at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, about the federal government’s role in cancer research (March 12)
—Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity, and journalist Eric Rosenthal, writing in The Hill about how Donald Trump should pursue Barack Obama’s cancer “moonshot” (February 15)
—Shelley Fuld Nasso, CEO of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, talking about Donald Trump’s appointment of Scott ...