Very, very sad news. He had always so much enthusiasm, good nature and friendliness that it was pure joy to work with him on using radiation damage as a source of small differences to use for phasing. He will be sadly missed!
Kind regards Clemens > Dear all, > > It is with profound sadness I announce the passing of Raimond Ravelli, one of > most remarkable and beloved members of our scientific community. > > Raimond first became widely known to the crystallographic community with his > brilliant “strategy” program in the 90’s, which he developed as part of his > PhD thesis. Later on, at the EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF, Raimond has been > instrumental in the development of the ID14-EH4 beamline, having helped > numerous colleagues to collect diffraction data and participating in many > exciting scientific projects. At that time, Raimond also developed his keen > interest in radiation damage, that influenced the ways that we collect and > process X-ray diffraction data even today. Raimond came back to his home > country, the Netherlands, first as an assistant professor at Leiden > University, and then as associate professor at Maastricht University. During > that transition he become an expert in cryo-electron microscopy. He made > numerous contributions also to his new field, in such a broad spectrum of > techniques, that it would be embarrassing to attempt to enumerate them here. > I will only mention that one piece of his work even became a museum exhibit > at the Leiden museum of natural history. > > Raimond has been recently appointed Full Professor of Structural Biology, at > Maastricht University, last November. His inauguration speech (Oratie) was > simply remarkable. I warmly recommend to anyone to watch it at [ > https://youtu.be/Gv3pKRp5S2Y?t=667 | https://youtu.be/Gv3pKRp5S2Y?t=667 ] . > It radiates his enthusiasm for science and is inspiring for all, in a way > that only he himself knew how to do. > > Raimond was an accomplished rowing athlete, a formidable cyclist, and a > hiking enthusiast. > > For the many of us who have been his friends it has a been a privilege and an > inspiration. Raimond, just 55, leaves behind him Maaike, an excellent > scientist and colleague herself, and their kids Seppe and Noé. > > I have no words that could possibly explain how much he will be missed. ######################################################################## 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/
