It is with great sadness that we announce that Dr. Hirotsugu (Hiro)
Tsuruta, a senior scientist and biophysicist in the Structural Molecular
Biology program at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at
SLAC, passed away on August 25, 2011, in Japan, after a courageous fight
with cancer. Funeral services took place in Sasebo, Japan, on August 27.
Hiro worked at SSRL for more than 20 years, and with great dedication
and scientific insight provided leadership for the build-up of the SSRL
biological small angle x-ray scattering research program, and a bioSAXS
beam line facility that today serves a large user community. He also
served the international community in many ways. His contributions were
numerous, and he leaves an international legacy in this growing area of
science, for which he pursued new developments until the end.
SSRL will organize an event to honor his contributions, and information
will follow when plans become available.
Britt Hedman and Keith Hodgson
