The sad news that Tom Eisner has left us got me thinking...who are the early-career ecologists/organismal/evolutionary biologists among us today who will evoke such feelings of awe and respect and loss when they pass away 30 or 40 or 50 years from now? Who among us will be looked upon as shaping (or re-shaping) an entire scientific discipline? Is it even possible to detect such people except in hindsight? These are not rhetorical questions, btw...I'm sincerely wondering whether any names come to mind.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March11/EisnerObit.html http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20110327/NEWS01/103270361/Eisner-remembered-much-more-than-scientist http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theithacajournal/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-eisner&pid=149742817
