Sad news, I have many fond memories of Alexey, starting from the tour he
gave me of his BLANC suite in York back in 1997 and then his clever humor
and discussions at many workshops and conferences. May his heaven have a
piece of Barcelona, which he loved ("almost as good as home").Isabel On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 8:29 PM 'Eugene Krissinel - STFC UKRI' via ysbl-ccp4i2dev <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > It is with a great sadness that I share with you that Alexey Vagin passed > away this Saturday in the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after suffering from > a heart attack with subsequent complications. He was 78 years old. > > Alexey made many developments in methods and software for macromolecular > crystallography, to which he devoted his whole life. He is known for his > BLANC Suite for structure solution done at the Moscow Institute of > Crystallography in the 1980s, as well as for his contributions to Refmac > and Monomer Library. Many thousands of researchers have benefited from his > work on Molrep and Balbes software for Molecular Replacement. After his > retirement in 2010, Alexey developed and actively maintained the MorDA > software for MR, which became a monument to his efforts. > > Alexey's work will continue to serve generations of researchers through > his contributions to CCP4, where we will take the best care of his > distinguished legacy. > > With sympathy to everyone who knew Alexey personally and for whom this is > very sad news, > > Eugene > > -- > CCP4i2 development & testing > -- > Bug reports - core: > https://fg.oisin.rc-harwell.ac.uk/tracker/?atid=169&group_id=92&func=browse > Bug reports - interfaces: > https://fg.oisin.rc-harwell.ac.uk/tracker/?atid=170&group_id=92&func=browse > Find archived messages: > https://groups.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/d/forum/ysbl-ccp4i2dev-group > --- > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > -- ICREA Res. Prof. Isabel Usón Crystallographic Methods Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spanish Research Council; Barcelona Science Park, Helix Building, 08028 Barcelona (Spain) http://chango.ibmb.csic.es/ARCIMBOLDO ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
