Dear protein crystallographers This is to inform our friends that Prof. Nobuhisa Watanabe died at the age of 58 from acute lymphoblastic leukemia at Nagoya University Hospital on the 26th of March, 2019. I should write this much earlier but myself was also unwell and please accept my apology on this late posting. He was a Professor at Nagoya University, Graduate School of Engineering and at the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center. Earlier, he also worked at Hokkaido University and at the Photon Factory. I think many foreign users visited the BL6A2, where Prof. Sakabe has installed the Weissenberg camera for macromolecular crystallography. He was a member of the team supporting the beamline users. I have uploaded some of the pictures from those days in my Face Book page (https://www.facebook.com/so.iwata.5), that might remind some of you who he was. He was an excellent protein crystallographer, particularly good at beamline instrumentation. At Nagoya University, he was looking after their single crystal X-ray diffraction beamline (BL2S1) at Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center.
He is survived by his wife Eiko and two young daughters. His funeral was held at the Aishoden hall, Nagoya Japan on the 28th of March. His family still keep his Face Book page (https://www.facebook.com/nobuhisa.watanabe.9). There you could see all the record of his brave fight with leukemia and also feel his sense of humor even on the bed of the hospital. Sincerely So Iwata Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
