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<div dir="ltr">Alexander and I will make sure that Helmut‘s legacy is honored at next year’s AUC conference!</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 29.11.2023 um 18:56 schrieb Thomas Laue <Tom.Laue@unh.edu>:<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 29, 2023 12:00 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RASMB] Helmut Cölfen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Well, Steve just beat me by a split second... we should definitively have a session honoring Helmut at the next AUC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And perhaps even a prize in his name for the best student presentation...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Mattia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p id="reply-intro"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Il 2023-11-29 17:52 Stephen Harding ha scritto:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear all</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The field has truly lost one of its greats – his
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wmeo34cAAAAJ&hl=de" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Google Scholar H-index</span></a> is out of this world - and only yesterday he was teaching his students at Konstanz.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Here is a nice picture taken by Vlad Dinu of Helmut – with Olwyn Byron and Trushar Patel – at the AUC Meeting at Lethbridge last year</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">.. and another handing out the Poster Prize at the Svedberg 125<sup>th</sup> anniversary meeting at Uppsala in 2009 (with two old
fogies in the foreground):</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Helmut was guest Editor of a Special Edition of Macromolecular Bioscience to commemorate the anniversary:
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<span style="color:#0563C1">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mabi.201000201</span></a>
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<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">At next year's AUC meeting at Bad Staffelstein in Germany I am hoping we can make a special tribute to his life and works.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Helmut – a Huge Thanks from the field ... although we'll have to find someone else now to sort out the Beer and Crisps at meetings
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<p class="v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Steve</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Thomas Laue <<a href="mailto:Tom.Laue@unh.edu">Tom.Laue@unh.edu</a>> <br>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:23 PM<br>
To: Stephen Harding (staff) <<a href="mailto:sczsteve@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk">sczsteve@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk</a>>;
<a href="mailto:rasmb@list.rasmb.org">rasmb@list.rasmb.org</a><br>
Subject: RE: [RASMB] Helmut Cölfen</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I will miss his terrific sense of humor, his great scientific insights and cheerful support of anyone in the AUC field. I will lift a glass of beer to him
tonight and recall all of the good times we had together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:29 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Subject: [RASMB] Helmut Cölfen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="v1msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">It is with great sadness to report that our good friend and colleague Helmut Cölfen died last night, Steve Harding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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