I would like to express my condolences on this sorrowful occasion. May God
rest his soul in peace. A great man is no more among us. 😭
Regards
Dr. Muhammad Umer Faroque
PhD Chemistry
International Young Scientist Awardee (IUCr)
Three times (2016-18-20)

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 10:46 PM Artem Evdokimov <artem.evdoki...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> George was an amazing human being and an unsurpassed scientist.
>
> Those of us who are privileged to have known him are this much richer in
> spirit, because of how freely he shared his brilliance with anyone who
> asked for help or advice.
>
> I say this with certainty that Dr. Sheldrick (through his software) was
> one of the main reasons why I did not give up on crystallography at the
> time when it was still very hard. He was one of the giants on whose
> shoulders the entire structure solving community has developed and moved
> forward.
>
> I will miss him.
>
> Artem
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 17:21 Isabel Uson <
> 0000cb655fae2581-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> it is with a heavy heart, that we must announce the passing of George
>> Michael Sheldrick.
>>
>> Everyone in crystallography knows George as a giant in the development of
>> computing methods despite his unassuming manner. His SHELX programs for
>> structure solution and refinement have shaped the field and their use has
>> been key to innumerable projects. The same is valid for his contribution to
>> data processing and analysis in the programs he wrote for Bruker detectors.
>> Only those young to crystallography will have missed that while typically
>> our papers are scored by the impact factor of a journal, one paper of
>> George rocketed the impact factor of the journal Acta Crystallographica A
>> from 2.05 to 54, surpassing that of Science, Nature or Cell in the year
>> 2010. This establishes how many scientific projects must have been aided by
>> George´s insightful work and bright solutions.
>>
>> Those of us who have had the privilege to meet George in person also know
>> him for his passion for problem solving, originality, sense of humour and
>> deep humanity.
>>
>>
>>
>> George has touched the lives and careers of so many group members,
>> providing a work environment that was simultaneously sheltered and free. He
>> was always receptive to our ideas, encouraging our independence, providing
>> the means to support them and giving us credit for what we accomplished. At
>> the same time, we were spared the financial worries or conflicts attached
>> to any institute. If Goethe was right in writing that character is built in
>> the tempest of life while talent requires the calm, George shaped the
>> optimal environment to develop our talents. An unusual trait of George is
>> that he always pondered what people said, not who said it. Experience shows
>> that humans are more ready to value what their friends, allies and
>> referents state as being correct and search for reasons why their
>> competition must be wrong! This lack of prejudice may explain why George´s
>> research group was always most diverse: he gave everyone fair opportunities.
>>
>> In lectures, talks or conversations, George would explain complicated
>> concepts making them come across as compellingly simple. His teaching would
>> always prompt critical thinking, as when he faked a nuclear explosion
>> producing a mushroom in his chemistry lecture with experiments. This was
>> the 80´s and half of the audience started an *im promptu *demonstration
>> against nuclear power before being absorbed in the debate of why this was
>> impossible and the analysis of what experiment had really taken place.
>>
>> Working with George was inspiring and fun, it covered a broad range of
>> interests in chemistry, geology and biology evolving along the years. In
>> Cambridge and Göttingen, George closely supervised more than a hundred
>> theses. Former students and co-workers would frequently stop in Göttingen
>> and pop up to join the coffee time, where daily group discussions would
>> take place. Many of us have kept in touch ever since, resorted to him for
>> advice or just for the pleasure of discussing science and puzzling problems.
>>
>> George Sheldrick will be missed.
>>
>> Regine Herbst-Irmer and Isabel Usón
>>
>> If you would like to express your condolences to George´s family, please
>> use the following email address: a.sheldr...@gmx.de
>>
>>
>> --
>> ICREA Res. Prof. Isabel Usón
>> Crystallographic Methods
>> Department of Structural and Molecular Biology,
>> Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spanish Research Council;
>> Barcelona Science Park, Helix Building, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)
>> http://chango.ibmb.csic.es/ARCIMBOLDO
>> http://shelx.uni-goettingen.de
>>
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