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<p class="MsoNormal">These messages have made me feel considerably better, given our loss, and thought I would briefly share my memory as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was not formally trained by Ken, though I learned a great deal from him and his writings (papers and textbooks). I was exposed to Physical Biochemistry as an undergraduate at Rutgers-Newark (the white cover) and still turn to it, though
it is the purple, expanded one I prefer these days. As a first-year graduate student, I invited Ken to give our annual student invited lecture. This was 1994, so the early days of email, but I maintained a sporadic but constant email correspondence with
Ken since then. He was such a mentor – genuinely concerned for my well-being, success and happiness as a scientist. He would write to just check in and he helped me navigate through challenging times, for sure. As PI, I have had the privilege of visiting
U. Oregon in Eugene more than once. On all occasions, I requested to my host to let Ken know I would be in town… and he came down every time (!) for seminar and dinner. It was a true highlight for me. I visited OSU just a few months ago, and though I requested
to see Ken, he was unavailable. I managed to communicate a few words about Ken and that entire department before my seminar that I hope fueled the younger students in the audience.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have been fortunate to have him. :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Enrique<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enrique M. De La Cruz<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yale University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">RASMB <rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org> on behalf of Borries Demeler <demeler@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 3:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>RASMB List <rasmb@list.rasmb.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[RASMB] Ken van Holde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am saddened to let you know that my mentor Ken van Holde passed early<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Saturday morning, surrounded by his children, in Corvallis, Oregon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ken was a remarkable scientist, mentor, role model, and full of humanity.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I had the privilege to join his lab in the late 80'ties when I started my<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PhD at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He was well known from his<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">biophysical work using analytical ultracentrifugation, studying hemocyanin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and the structure and function of chromatin. He also contributed a large<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">body of research to AUC methodology and solution biophysics, including<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">His career in academia started at the University of Wisconsin in Madison<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">with an undergraduate degree, and later a PhD. If I recall correctly,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">it was there that he first encountered an analytical ultracentrifuge.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He continued as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Milwaukee, and in 1957 he moved to the University of Illinois where<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">he advanced to Professor. In 1967 he moved to Oregon, to the Dept.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">of Biochemistry and Biophysics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He was an internationally recognized scholar, having received multiple<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">important awards, including the Monie A. Ferst Award, he was appointed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sciences, and he also held the title of American Cancer Society Research<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Professor. Ken was further recognized by the Guggenheim foundation, and<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">received awards from NSF, EMBO, and the Centre National de la Recherche<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scientifique. He traveled frequently and spent considerable time abroad,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">primarily in France and Germany, to conduct research with scientists<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">from many different fields.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I was in Oregon, every summer he packed up a station wagon and drove<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">across the country to teach the physiology course at the Marine Biological<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Laboratory in Woods Hole, where he also interacted with David Yphantis,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">who passed earlier this year.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At Oregon State University, Ken was named an OSU Distinguished Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">in 1988, and in 1993 he retired as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">His career didn't end with his retirement, he still wrote several books<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and continued to serve as associate editor of JBC. I'm sure I am leaving<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">out a lot, but if you have fond memories of Ken, please share them with us.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards, -Borries<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">P.S. I received this from a friend of mine at OSU:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ken recently produced a book of his poetry and the last poem in the<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">collection, penned in 2014 is entitled “An Old Man”. It reads:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/When I was young and frantic/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/I saw an old man sitting/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/alone in a garden/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/I thought, how sad/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/that we should come to this./<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/Now I am old./<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/The frenzy is gone./<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/I have learned the beauty/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/of a fading afternoon;/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/the mystery of night./<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/I spend hours/<o:p></o:p></p>
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