I met Alexey at an EMBO course in Gif-sur-Yvette in 2005. I thought he was impressive and had an incredible sense of humour: from his friendly competition with Jorge Navaza, to his remarks about making MOLREP properly automated so he could have 'more time to smoke'. Back then, his York website was full of hilarious crystallography memes, long before the explosion of social media. A brilliant guy who helped make crystallography both fun and interesting.
My condolences, Jon On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 19:41, James Foadi <000009daa8ec3774-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > I am very sad to hear this! Alexey was one of my favourites when I was in > York, and I have had many lovely conversations with him. You are right, > Eugene, his contributions have helped and will keep helping many > crystallographers and methods developers. > > May his soul rest in peace! > > James > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Sunday, March 26, 2023, 7:29 pm, Eugene Krissinel - STFC UKRI > <00006fcecdb9c847-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear All, > > It is with a great sadness that I share with you that Alexey Vagin passed > away this Saturday in the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after suffering from a > heart attack with subsequent complications. He was 78 years old. > > Alexey made many developments in methods and software for macromolecular > crystallography, to which he devoted his whole life. He is known for his > BLANC Suite for structure solution done at the Moscow Institute of > Crystallography in the 1980s, as well as for his contributions to Refmac and > Monomer Library. Many thousands of researchers have benefited from his work > on Molrep and Balbes software for Molecular Replacement. After his retirement > in 2010, Alexey developed and actively maintained the MorDA software for MR, > which became a monument to his efforts. > > Alexey's work will continue to serve generations of researchers through his > contributions to CCP4, where we will take the best care of his distinguished > legacy. > > With sympathy to everyone who knew Alexey personally and for whom this is > very sad news, > > Eugene > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- Dr Jon Agirre Royal Society University Research Fellow (assistant professor) CCP4 WG2 co-chair | instruct-ERIC representative @ 3D-Bioinfo (Elixir) York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, UK Office: B/K065 Phone: +44 (0) 1904 32 8252 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
