Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-05-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 05/02/2015 12:23 PM, Imre Berger wrote: Dear Edward - Would you be so kind and explain why you went ahead to post that comment about Alex Rich on CCP4, in a thread which announced the sad news of his passing away? Yes- I realized after posting it that it was inappropriate. If there is any

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Sweet
I am really sorry to hear this. May his soul rest in peace. With great respect and affection for Alex, I doubt seriously if he will rest in peace. My memory of him as a beamline user was that he was demanding and difficult to satisfy, but in the end grateful for the effort we exerted, and

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-04-30 Thread Edward A. Berry
Some details of one controversy Prof. Rich became embroiled in are available on the wikipedia page for his colleague Sung-Hou Kim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Sung-Hou). Especially references 6-8, which are scanned copies of correspondence exchanged with the folks at MRC, e.g. the initial

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-04-30 Thread Rosario Recacha
Hola Cele, Que te parece? Yo creo que en este tipo de servicios es un poco triste que se envien estas cosas Besos, Rosario On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Edward A. Berry ber...@upstate.edu wrote: Some details of one controversy Prof. Rich became embroiled in are available on the

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-04-28 Thread Rantidev Shukla
I am really sorry to hear this. May his soul rest in peace. Ranti Dev Shukla, Doctoral fellow, Structural Biology laboratory, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Ho,Shing shing...@colostate.edu wrote: It is with great sadness

[ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-04-28 Thread Ho,Shing
It is with great sadness to announce that Dr. Alexander Rich, Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT, passed away on Monday April 27, 2015 at Massachusetts General Hospital – he was 90. Alex, a member of the RNA tie club, contributed significantly to our understanding of RNA and DNA structure