OBITUARY: John Maddox (1925-2009)

Abstract

After several years of research and teaching theoretical physics, Maddox, who was regarded as a theoretician of exceptional talent, found himself struggling to keep his family on a lecturer's salary. [...] the impetus for the launch of monthly companion journals to Nature, to accommodate papers that the mother journal had to decline for lack of space, or that were deemed too specialized for the broad appeal at which it had always aimed.