[RASMB] Death of Geoffrey Gilbert

[brass at uconnvm.uconn.edu]

I regret to inform you of the death yesterday, of another giant of the 
analytical ultracentrifugation world, Geoffrey Gilbert, in Birmingham 
England, after a long illness.   He was particularly known for his 
development of transport theory for interacting systems in sedimentation 
velocity studies (“Gilbert theory”).   He concluded that, rapidly-reversible 
associating systems produced  “interaction boundaries” which could 
reveal much about the stoichiometry and association constant of the 
system.   A man of rare intelligence and brilliant dry humor, he was my 
post-doctoral advisor, and friend.  I will miss him.    Emory H. Braswell