[RASMB] Ken van Holde

Sun Nov 10 22:17:57 PST 2019

Dear Borries, Thank you for the timely obituary. I also heard that the
memorial Service
will be planned, but do not know the details.

Big loss, indeed.
Ken was also my mentor since I was a Ph.D. student under his guidance.
While I was a student there, Wolffang Weischet was working as a postdoc.
(See Van Holde and Weischet, Biopolymers, 1978) Experience at OSU with Ken
has been
the driving force in my scientific carrier.
After obtained my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to participate in the
Physiology course in 1977
which was organized by Ken. It was wonderful and immemorable.
 --Fumio Arisaka

2019年11月11日(月) 11:35 Walter Stafford <wstafford3 at walterstafford.com>:

> Sad news, indeed. Ken had a strong and lasting influence on many
> scientific careers, including my own. I remember his especially lucid
> lectures in the Physiology Course in Woods Hole in 1968 and years
> following. His influence lives on through his books and his students.
>
>
>
> *********************************
> Walter Stafford
> wstafford3 at walterstafford.com
>
> "The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but things you
> do for others remain as your legacy." --Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
>
> On Nov 10, 2019, at 19:00, Michael Morris <m.morris at sydney.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Who doesn’t have a copy – or several copies – of Physical Biochemistry?
>
> I’m looking fondly through my marked-up copies now…
>
> Ken is part of our Pantheon.
>
>
> On 11/11/19, 8:01 am, "RASMB on behalf of Kirk C Aune" <
> rasmb-bounces at list.rasmb.org on behalf of kaune at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>    Borries, thank you for the notice on Ken van Holde.  It also saddens me
>    for his work influenced my career as well.  Those of us "growing-up" in
>    the early years of physical biochemistry had some wonderfully gifted
>    colleagues.
>
>
>    On 2019-11-10 15:09, Borries Demeler wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> I am saddened to let you know that my mentor Ken van Holde passed early
> Saturday morning, surrounded by his children, in Corvallis, Oregon.
>
> Ken was a remarkable scientist, mentor, role model, and full of humanity.
> I had the privilege to join his lab in the late 80'ties when I started my
> PhD at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He was well known from his
> biophysical work using analytical ultracentrifugation, studying hemocyanin
> and the structure and function of chromatin. He also contributed a large
> body of research to AUC methodology and solution biophysics, including
> several textbooks.
>
> His career in academia started at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
> with an undergraduate degree, and later a PhD. If I recall correctly,
> it was there that he first encountered an analytical ultracentrifuge.
> He continued as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in
> Milwaukee, and in 1957 he moved to the University of Illinois where
> he advanced to Professor. In 1967 he moved to Oregon, to the Dept.
> of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
>
> He was an internationally recognized scholar, having received multiple
> important awards, including the Monie A. Ferst Award, he was appointed
> to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and
> Sciences, and he also held the title of American Cancer Society Research
> Professor. Ken was further recognized by the Guggenheim foundation, and
> received awards from NSF, EMBO, and the Centre National de la Recherche
> Scientifique. He traveled frequently and spent considerable time abroad,
> primarily in France and Germany, to conduct research with scientists
> from many different fields.
>
> When I was in Oregon, every summer he packed up a station wagon and drove
> across the country to teach the physiology course at the Marine Biological
> Laboratory in Woods Hole, where he also interacted with David Yphantis,
> who passed earlier this year.
>
> At Oregon State University, Ken was named an OSU Distinguished Professor
> in 1988, and in 1993 he retired as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
> His career didn't end with his retirement, he still wrote several books
> and continued to serve as associate editor of JBC. I'm sure I am leaving
> out a lot, but if you have fond memories of Ken, please share them with us.
>
> Regards, -Borries
>
> P.S. I received this from a friend of mine at OSU:
>
> Ken recently produced a book of his poetry and the last poem in the
> collection, penned in 2014 is entitled “An Old Man”. It reads:
>
> /Once,/
>
> /When I was young and frantic/
>
> /I saw an old man sitting/
>
> /alone in a garden/
>
> /I thought, how sad/
>
> /that we should come to this./
>
> //
>
> /Now I am old./
>
> /The frenzy is gone./
>
> /I have learned the beauty/
>
> /of a fading afternoon;/
>
> /the mystery of night./
>
> //
>
> /I spend hours/
>
> /sitting/
>
> /watching/
>
> /waiting./
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