I am very sad to hear this! Alexey was one of my favourites when I was in York,
and I have had many lovely conversations with him. You are right, Eugene, his
contributions have helped and will keep helping many crystallographers and
methods developers.
May his soul rest in peace!
James
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Sorry to hear, he helped me a very long time ago during my PhD time when I
was running into troubles with some of his programs.
The York CCzp4 weekends were fun indeed, finishing off some wines tgat Paul
Adam’s had stored away.
Jürgen
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Jürgen Bosch, PhD,
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
Alexei certainly contributed in MANY ways to Study Weekends!
Fun memories..
Eleanor
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 20:00, Jurgen Bosch wrote:
> Sorry to hear, he helped me a very long time ago during my PhD time when I
> was running into troubles with some of his programs.
>
> The York CCzp4 weekends
Thank you Eugene for letting us know. He contributed so much to
crystallography, and was a good friend too.
MOLREP is such a well designed program, and he kept up his innovative ideas
- a true behind-the-scenes shaker and mover..
Eleanor
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 19:29, 'Eugene Krissinel - STFC
I had the pleasure of editing and accepting an article that Alexei Vagin
and his colleague Alexei Teplyakov submitted to the International Tables
for Crystallography Volume F (2nd edition) on the Molrep software. I'm
sorry to hear the news and extend my condolences to all who knew him.
Very very sad to hear this. I have some great memories of our time together in
York several of which involve molecular replacement problems, Fortran77 code,
and pubs.
A brilliant mind and a good person. Will miss having someone calling me
'Rapierta' (Roberto pronounced with a Russian accent).
Sad news indeed for so many of us, those who knew Alexei personally and
those who benefited professionally from his selfless dedication to
computational crystallography.
A wise man once said something along the lines of anyone successful today
standing on the shoulders of giants of the past.
