<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 10, 2019, at 19:00, Michael Morris <<a href="mailto:m.morris@sydney.edu.au" class="">m.morris@sydney.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Who doesn’t have a copy – or several copies – of Physical Biochemistry?<br class=""><br class="">I’m looking fondly through my marked-up copies now…<br class=""><br class="">Ken is part of our Pantheon.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 11/11/19, 8:01 am, "RASMB on behalf of Kirk C Aune" <<a href="mailto:rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org" class="">rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:kaune@sbcglobal.net" class="">kaune@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""> Borries, thank you for the notice on Ken van Holde. It also saddens me <br class=""> for his work influenced my career as well. Those of us "growing-up" in <br class=""> the early years of physical biochemistry had some wonderfully gifted <br class=""> colleagues.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> On 2019-11-10 15:09, Borries Demeler wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear Colleagues,<br class="">I am saddened to let you know that my mentor Ken van Holde passed early<br class="">Saturday morning, surrounded by his children, in Corvallis, Oregon.<br class=""><br class="">Ken was a remarkable scientist, mentor, role model, and full of humanity.<br class="">I had the privilege to join his lab in the late 80'ties when I started my<br class="">PhD at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He was well known from his<br class="">biophysical work using analytical ultracentrifugation, studying hemocyanin<br class="">and the structure and function of chromatin. He also contributed a large<br class="">body of research to AUC methodology and solution biophysics, including<br class="">several textbooks.<br class=""><br class="">His career in academia started at the University of Wisconsin in Madison<br class="">with an undergraduate degree, and later a PhD. If I recall correctly,<br class="">it was there that he first encountered an analytical ultracentrifuge.<br class="">He continued as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in<br class="">Milwaukee, and in 1957 he moved to the University of Illinois where<br class="">he advanced to Professor. In 1967 he moved to Oregon, to the Dept.<br class="">of Biochemistry and Biophysics.<br class=""><br class="">He was an internationally recognized scholar, having received multiple<br class="">important awards, including the Monie A. Ferst Award, he was appointed<br class="">to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and<br class="">Sciences, and he also held the title of American Cancer Society Research<br class="">Professor. Ken was further recognized by the Guggenheim foundation, and<br class="">received awards from NSF, EMBO, and the Centre National de la Recherche<br class="">Scientifique. He traveled frequently and spent considerable time abroad,<br class="">primarily in France and Germany, to conduct research with scientists<br class="">from many different fields.<br class=""><br class="">When I was in Oregon, every summer he packed up a station wagon and drove<br class="">across the country to teach the physiology course at the Marine Biological<br class="">Laboratory in Woods Hole, where he also interacted with David Yphantis,<br class="">who passed earlier this year.<br class=""><br class="">At Oregon State University, Ken was named an OSU Distinguished Professor<br class="">in 1988, and in 1993 he retired as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.<br class="">His career didn't end with his retirement, he still wrote several books<br class="">and continued to serve as associate editor of JBC. I'm sure I am leaving<br class="">out a lot, but if you have fond memories of Ken, please share them with us.<br class=""><br class="">Regards, -Borries<br class=""><br class="">P.S. I received this from a friend of mine at OSU:<br class=""><br class="">Ken recently produced a book of his poetry and the last poem in the<br class="">collection, penned in 2014 is entitled “An Old Man”. It reads:<br class=""><br class="">/Once,/<br class=""><br class="">/When I was young and frantic/<br class=""><br class="">/I saw an old man sitting/<br class=""><br class="">/alone in a garden/<br class=""><br class="">/I thought, how sad/<br class=""><br class="">/that we should come to this./<br class=""><br class="">//<br class=""><br class="">/Now I am old./<br class=""><br class="">/The frenzy is gone./<br class=""><br class="">/I have learned the beauty/<br class=""><br class="">/of a fading afternoon;/<br class=""><br class="">/the mystery of night./<br class=""><br class="">//<br class=""><br class="">/I spend hours/<br class=""><br class="">/sitting/<br class=""><br class="">/watching/<br class=""><br class="">/waiting./<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">RASMB mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org" class="">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><br class="">https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""> -- <br class=""> Kirk C Aune, PhD<br class=""> 7647 Cortona Drive<br class=""> Granger, IN 46530<br class=""> (574) 286-3262<br class=""> Linux User #1720<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> _______________________________________________<br class=""> RASMB mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org" class="">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><br class=""> <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org" class="">https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">RASMB mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org" class="">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><br class="">http://list.rasmb.org/listinfo.cgi/rasmb-rasmb.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>