I first met Franz in 1959. I was a PhD student at Cambridge at the time and had been abandoned by my Supervisor, who had gone off to Princeton without offering to take me with him. Exciting news about a place called CERN was circulating, and after some effort I managed to arrange to spend a few months there. Somehow, and I can't recall how, I learned that UCL kept an apartment in Geneva, and that a spare bed was available for me. I arrived at Cornavin by train, loaded with a large suitcase, to find Franz waiting for me on his motorbike. Not at all troubled by my suitcase, he explained how to load myself and suitcase onto the machine, and with me in a panic hanging on for dear life to both him and the suitcase, shot off towards the apartment. That was the beginning of a long friendship. Many decades later, when Physics at Westfield College had been forced to shut down, Franz played a seminal role in persuading Birkbeck to reopen David Bohm's Chair for me, which had been closed following Bohm's retirement. Having Franz as UCL Head of Department was a great help to me in trying to set up various joint UCL-Birkbeck ventures, most notably the weekly Seminar, which ran successfully for many years, despite the infamous fiasco of the foot long choclate eclairs purchased by an over enthusiastic UCL graduate student, who had been ordered by Franz to ensure that something really attractive was offered at the pre-seminar tea gathering. Franz will be very sadly missed !! Elliot Leader From e.leader@imperial.ac.uk Thu Apr 14 2005