I'm really sad to hear that. Rest in peace. One of his articles, which has William as the first author, is very interesting, well-written, easy to read, and I use it to illustrate and open the mind of biochemistry students regarding several important topics. Works like a charm.
RNA Catalysis, Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187163/ ----- Mensagem original ----- > De: "William G. Scott" <[email protected]> > Para: [email protected] > Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 30 de Janeiro de 2017 2:17:10 > Assunto: [ccp4bb] Abraham Szöke > Dear Colleagues: > Is is with great sadness that I report the recent passing of Abraham > Szöke, a friend, colleague, informal mentor, and an exceptionally > intelligent and energetic source of boundless intellectual > enthusiasm. > Abraham was a physicist at Livermore who helped to design nuclear > weapons for a living, but he had many other interests. One of these > was X-ray crystallography, and with his wife and collaborator Hanna > Szöke, as well as John Somoza, he developed an approach to > crystallographic real-space electron-density refinement and > optimization, implemented in a program called EDEN, that produces > electron density maps with minimal model bias in a robust manner. > The source code, along with a brief explanation and extensive user's > manual, is freely available: > https://code.google.com/archive/p/edencrystallography/ > https://github.com/wgscott/edencrystallography > EDEN is written in C and is easy to compile on any unix platform. A > fink package for OS X is also available, as are packages for various > linux distributions. > John and I first met Abraham and Hanna Szöke when we were graduate > students at Berkeley. A few years later, I had the opportunity to > collaborate with them and to put EDEN to the test. A single-particle > version of EDEN was also under development, for use with electron > microscopy. Abraham had a wide variety of interests in addition to > electron density reconstruction, including many novel ideas about > the origin of life. He enjoyed a multitude of fruitful and > productive collaborations throughout a period most normal people > would consider retirement. He passed away on Thursday at age 87 from > an opportunistic infection while combatting lymphoma. > William G. Scott > Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry > and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA > University of California at Santa Cruz > Santa Cruz, California 95064 > USA > http://scottlab.ucsc.edu
