We find that another of our outstanding EMC contributors for many decades has passed on. Dr. Tom Dvorak, as I would like to say, was father of the enormously successful EMC Zurich symposium held in several venues but mostly in Zurich, Switzerland. I recall all the times I attended this symposium, giving papers and workshops and chatting with Tom. This allowed me to get to know him better. As will be reported by Gabriel Meyer, his close colleague at ETH in Zurich (Swiss Federal institute), Tom was a stickler for having no less than the “perfect paper” published in the proceedings. This included not only assurance that the technical discussion made sense but also that the physical layout of the paper on paper was perfect. An example of the latter attention to detail was that each column in a two column format on the page had to be identical. In this way, at the bottom of the page, the last line in column 1 was at the same “elevation” as the last line in column 2. To emphasize this point one year, all speakers got a “kit” with scissors, tape, a ruler, and other utensils to make the last lines in each column the same distance from the bottom of the page. I still have that kit. Every time I see it, I recall Tom fondly as the near perfectionist. The tributes to Tom which appear below are from his closest colleagues. Normally I would focus only on the tributes to Tom related to his career. But the stories of his colleagues are as compelling as a history of EMC in Europe; I have extended the material in each tribute. As you will see, the disapproval of Tom's request for having the IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Montreux, Switzerland in 1975 led to his moving ahead with the symposium in Montreux. That spawned the multiyear EMC symposia primarily in Zurich, Switzerland — a real success story. The photo below was taken of Tom at the Zurich EMC Symposium banquet in the Dolder Grande Hotel. I had the pleasure of being there and applauding him for all he did for the symposium. In any case, we now announce with sadness Tom's obituary.