Michel Alania passed away at the age of 85 years on May 18, 2020. He was the designer and first PI of the neutron monitor in Tbilisi, Georgia, and made long-standing contributions to cosmic ray research, especially on the solar modulation of cosmic rays, as a researcher and head of the cosmic ray group at Siedlce University, Poland.
Karel Kudela from the Institute of Experimental Physics, Košice, Slovakia passed away at the age of 72 on January 20th, 2019. He was an outstanding scientist in Cosmic Ray Variations and Space Physics and a founding member of NMDB.
