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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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"><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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img border="0" width="604" height="340" style="width:6.2916in;height:3.5416in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA22E3.C057EFC0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img border="0" width="605" height="454" style="width:6.302in;height:4.7291in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DA22E3.C057EFC0" alt="A group of men holding a certificate
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Helmut was guest Editor of a Special Edition of Macromolecular Bioscience to commemorate the anniversary:
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mabi.201000201"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mabi.201000201</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">😊</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Rest in Peace – wir werden dich vermissen!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Thomas Laue <Tom.Laue@unh.edu> <br>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:23 PM<br>
To: Stephen Harding (staff) <sczsteve@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>; rasmb@list.rasmb.org<br>
Subject: RE: [RASMB] Helmut Cölfen</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">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></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">From: RASMB <<a href="mailto:rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org</span></a>> On Behalf Of Stephen Harding<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:29 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To: <a href="mailto:rasmb@list.rasmb.org"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">rasmb@list.rasmb.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: [RASMB] Helmut Cölfen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">It is with great sadness to report that our good friend and colleague Helmut Cölfen died last night, Steve Harding<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Stephen E Harding MA, DSc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Professor of Applied Biochemistry, University of Nottingham NCMH, Limes Building, School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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