[RASMB] Marc Lewis

[Laue, Thomas]

Ah, the infamous Pin21 on the Model E scanner…

From: Minton, Allen P (NIH/NIDDK) [V] [mailto:allenm at niddk.nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 2:38 PM
To: Sambit Kar <sambitkar at gmail.com>; Laue, Thomas <Tom.Laue at unh.edu>
Cc: rasmb at rasmb.org
Subject: RE: [RASMB] Marc Lewis

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Marc and I performed the first sedimentation equilibrium experiments on really highly concentrated proteins (hemoglobin and myoglobin), reaching concentrations over 350 g/l [Minton & Lewis (1981) Biophys. Chem. 14: 317-324].  I believe that this record for high concentration still stands.

Subsequently we built the first computer-based Model E absorbance scanner control and digital data acquisition system at the NIH, using an IBM AT running an early version of DOS and programming in Turbo Pascal.  We had a lot of fun doing this, including some hardware hacking on the scanner.  The system was later replicated in the lab of Ed Eisenstein at CARB.

I think Marc must have been at least 15 years older than me.  He once invited me to play squash with him on a squash court located quite close to his laboratory in the basement of Building 35.  I naively assumed that as a healthy young adult I would have no problem competing with an old geezer like him.  Wrong!  While hardly moving at all, he ran me to a frazzle in short order.  Age and cunning trumps youth.

Marc Lewis will be remembered fondly by his colleagues and friends.

Allen Minton







From: Sambit Kar [mailto:sambitkar at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 3:13 PM
To: Laue, Thomas <Tom.Laue at unh.edu<mailto:Tom.Laue at unh.edu>>
Cc: rasmb at rasmb.org<mailto:rasmb at rasmb.org>
Subject: Re: [RASMB] Marc Lewis

A sad, sad day. I remember him as a great story teller and a truly compassionate soul. May his soul rest in peace.


On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Laue, Thomas <Tom.Laue at unh.edu<mailto:Tom.Laue at unh.edu>> wrote:
Dear all-
I learned from Les Holladay that Marc Lewis passed away in his sleep last night. Marc was a long-time advocate for AUC, working hard to keep it available during the ‘dark days’ in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s.
He will be missed-
Tom

Professor Emeritus
University of New Hampshire


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