Really awful sad news & I am sorry to have had to be the bearer...
-Tom
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thomas, thank you for this notification. Oh, this is just devastating. I'm
> overwhelmed. How very very sad.
>
> Bob Hanson
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Stout <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> I am sorry to pass along this rather shocking news regarding Warren:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear CCP4 Community:
>>
>> I write today with very sad news about Dr. Warren Lyford DeLano.
>>
>> I was informed by his family today that Warren suddenly passed
>> away at home on Tuesday morning, November 3rd.
>>
>> While at Yale, Warren made countless contributions to the computational
>> tools
>> and methods developed in my laboratory (the X-PLOR and CNS programs),
>> including the direct rotation function, the first prediction of helical
>> coiled coil
>> structures, the scripting and parsing tools that made CNS a universal
>> computational
>> crystallography program.
>>
>> He then joined Dr. Jim Wells laboratory at USCF and Genentech where he
>> pursued
>> a Ph.D. in biophysics, discovering some of the principles that govern
>> protein-protein interactions.
>>
>> Warren then made a fundamental contribution to biological sciences by
>> creating the
>> Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL that is widely used
>> throughout
>> the world. Nearly all publications that display macromolecular structures
>> use PyMOL.
>>
>> Warren was a strong advocate of freely available software and the Open
>> Source
>> movement.
>>
>> Warren's family is planning to announce a memorial service, but
>> arrangements have
>> not yet been made. I will send more information as I receive it.
>>
>> Please join me in extending our condolences to Warren's family.
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Axel Brunger
>>
>> Axel T. Brunger
>> Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
>> Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
>> Stanford University
>>
>> Web:
>> http://atbweb.stanford.edu<https://webmail.exelixis.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://atbweb.stanford.edu>
>> Email: [email protected]
>> Phone: +1 650-736-1031
>> Fax: +1 650-745-1463
>>
>>
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