<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Borries, Thank you for the timely obituary. I also heard that the memorial Service</div><div>will be planned, but do not know the details.</div><div><br></div><div>Big loss, indeed.</div><div>Ken was also my mentor since I was a Ph.D. student under his guidance.</div><div>While I was a student there, Wolffang Weischet was working as a postdoc.</div><div>(See Van Holde and Weischet, Biopolymers, 1978) Experience at OSU with Ken has been</div><div>the driving force in my scientific carrier.</div><div>After obtained my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to participate in the Physiology course in 1977 </div><div>which was organized by Ken. It was wonderful and immemorable. </div><div> --Fumio Arisaka</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">2019年11月11日(月) 11:35 Walter Stafford <<a href="mailto:wstafford3@walterstafford.com">wstafford3@walterstafford.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">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><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 10, 2019, at 19:00, Michael Morris <<a href="mailto:m.morris@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank">m.morris@sydney.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Who doesn’t have a copy – or several copies – of Physical Biochemistry?<br><br>I’m looking fondly through my marked-up copies now…<br><br>Ken is part of our Pantheon.<br><br><br>On 11/11/19, 8:01 am, "RASMB on behalf of Kirk C Aune" <<a href="mailto:rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org" target="_blank">rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:kaune@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">kaune@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br><br> Borries, thank you for the notice on Ken van Holde. It also saddens me <br> for his work influenced my career as well. Those of us "growing-up" in <br> the early years of physical biochemistry had some wonderfully gifted <br> colleagues.<br><br><br> On 2019-11-10 15:09, Borries Demeler wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Colleagues,<br>I am saddened to let you know that my mentor Ken van Holde passed early<br>Saturday morning, surrounded by his children, in Corvallis, Oregon.<br><br>Ken was a remarkable scientist, mentor, role model, and full of humanity.<br>I had the privilege to join his lab in the late 80'ties when I started my<br>PhD at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He was well known from his<br>biophysical work using analytical ultracentrifugation, studying hemocyanin<br>and the structure and function of chromatin. He also contributed a large<br>body of research to AUC methodology and solution biophysics, including<br>several textbooks.<br><br>His career in academia started at the University of Wisconsin in Madison<br>with an undergraduate degree, and later a PhD. If I recall correctly,<br>it was there that he first encountered an analytical ultracentrifuge.<br>He continued as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in<br>Milwaukee, and in 1957 he moved to the University of Illinois where<br>he advanced to Professor. In 1967 he moved to Oregon, to the Dept.<br>of Biochemistry and Biophysics.<br><br>He was an internationally recognized scholar, having received multiple<br>important awards, including the Monie A. Ferst Award, he was appointed<br>to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and<br>Sciences, and he also held the title of American Cancer Society Research<br>Professor. Ken was further recognized by the Guggenheim foundation, and<br>received awards from NSF, EMBO, and the Centre National de la Recherche<br>Scientifique. He traveled frequently and spent considerable time abroad,<br>primarily in France and Germany, to conduct research with scientists<br>from many different fields.<br><br>When I was in Oregon, every summer he packed up a station wagon and drove<br>across the country to teach the physiology course at the Marine Biological<br>Laboratory in Woods Hole, where he also interacted with David Yphantis,<br>who passed earlier this year.<br><br>At Oregon State University, Ken was named an OSU Distinguished Professor<br>in 1988, and in 1993 he retired as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.<br>His career didn't end with his retirement, he still wrote several books<br>and continued to serve as associate editor of JBC. I'm sure I am leaving<br>out a lot, but if you have fond memories of Ken, please share them with us.<br><br>Regards, -Borries<br><br>P.S. I received this from a friend of mine at OSU:<br><br>Ken recently produced a book of his poetry and the last poem in the<br>collection, penned in 2014 is entitled “An Old Man”. It reads:<br><br>/Once,/<br><br>/When I was young and frantic/<br><br>/I saw an old man sitting/<br><br>/alone in a garden/<br><br>/I thought, how sad/<br><br>/that we should come to this./<br><br>//<br><br>/Now I am old./<br><br>/The frenzy is gone./<br><br>/I have learned the beauty/<br><br>/of a fading afternoon;/<br><br>/the mystery of night./<br><br>//<br><br>/I spend hours/<br><br>/sitting/<br><br>/watching/<br><br>/waiting./<br>_______________________________________________<br>RASMB mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org" target="_blank">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><br><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org" target="_blank">https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org</a><br></blockquote><br> -- <br> Kirk C Aune, PhD<br> 7647 Cortona Drive<br> Granger, IN 46530<br> (574) 286-3262<br> Linux User #1720<br><br><br> _______________________________________________<br> RASMB mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org" target="_blank">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><br> <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org" target="_blank">https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x_GGC71ZgLtkKYJ5T8GfvA?domain=list.rasmb.org</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>RASMB mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org" target="_blank">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><br><a href="http://list.rasmb.org/listinfo.cgi/rasmb-rasmb.org" target="_blank">http://list.rasmb.org/listinfo.cgi/rasmb-rasmb.org</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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