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<body><div>Dear colleagues and friends.</div>
<div><br /></div><div><span>Unfortunately, The doctors at the Amsterdam UMedical Center had to inform me that I'll probably die shortly (a year from now?) </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Many thanks for friendship and collaboration. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Best, <br />Loet </span></div><div><br /></div><div id="signature_old" style="clear:both"><div id="xb92083603b9c4c6">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 9pt;" size="1">_______________</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 9pt;" size="1"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1POM4jgk$"></a>Loet Leydesdorff</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 9pt;" size="1"><br /></font></b></p><div id="x37dfff32a36b4410ad8e891fea6bb1b8"><p class="MsoNormal" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" style="line-height:normal;"><b style=""><font style="font-size: 9pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="1"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1j-WbVLg$" style="">"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discusive Knowledge"</a>(Open Access)</font></b></p></div><div id="x37dfff32a36b4410ad8e891fea6bb1b8"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="1">
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)<o:p xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="1"><a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" title="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" style="">loet@leydesdorff.net </a>; <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.leydesdorff.net/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1howqcWY$" title="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" style="">http://www.leydesdorff.net/</a>
<o:p xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1fAXP-ZU$" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="1">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en</font></a></p></div><div id="x37dfff32a36b4410ad8e891fea6bb1b8"><span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="1">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);"><font style="font-size: 8pt;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="1">ORCID: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X174R3Pes$" style="">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098</a>; </font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"></o:p></span></font></p><span>
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