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When the invitation for this meeting reached me, I did not hesitate. Of course, I wished to be present when it was Franz Kahn’s turn for the formal move to say goodbye. Like many of us, he will probably sneak in again through the back door and continue working.

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van de Hulst, H.C. (1994). Cosmical Gas Dynamics, Why Was It So Difficult?. In: Dyson, J.E., Carling, E.B. (eds) Kinematics and Dynamics of Diffuse Astrophysical Media. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0926-0_1

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