“On July 26th, Prof. Philip H. Quanjer passed away. Trained as a specialist in internal medicine and professor of pulmonary physiology at Leiden University, he was one of the founders of applied respiratory research in The Netherlands and far beyond – starting from the 1970s. He pushed not only for national collaboration (as honorary member of the Dutch Lung Foundation), but also became one of the pioneers of European synergies that started within the European community for coal and steel, the roots of the EU. He was a recipient of the European Respiratory Society’s Sadoul Lecture Award and was a founder of the European Respiratory Journal. Philip Quanjer crossed bridges between pulmonology, pediatrics, physiology, epidemiology, engineering, information technology, and statistics. From the Global Lung Initiative, he was actively contributing to improving the definition and description of what is normal and what is not, with regard to lung function, until this very year.”
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