This is really sad news. It leaves me with a sense of surrealism. I wish his family a lot of strength.
Tsjerk On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Thomas Grant <tgr...@hwi.buffalo.edu> wrote: > For those of you who are not subscribed to the CCP4 Bulletin Board. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Axel Brunger <brun...@stanford.edu> > Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM > Subject: [ccp4bb] Warren DeLano > To: ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk > > > Dear CCP4 Community: > I write today with very sad news about Dr. Warren Lyford DeLano. > I was informed by his family today that Warren suddenly passed > away at home on Tuesday morning, November 3rd. > While at Yale, Warren made countless contributions to the computational > tools > and methods developed in my laboratory (the X-PLOR and CNS programs), > including the direct rotation function, the first prediction of helical > coiled coil > structures, the scripting and parsing tools that made CNS a universal > computational > crystallography program. > He then joined Dr. Jim Wells laboratory at USCF and Genentech where he > pursued > a Ph.D. in biophysics, discovering some of the principles that govern > protein-protein interactions. > Warren then made a fundamental contribution to biological sciences by > creating the > Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL that is widely used throughout > the world. Nearly all publications that display macromolecular structures > use PyMOL. > Warren was a strong advocate of freely available software and the Open > Source > movement. > Warren's family is planning to announce a memorial service, but arrangements > have > not yet been made. I will send more information as I receive it. > Please join me in extending our condolences to Warren's family. > Sincerely yours, > Axel Brunger > > Axel T. Brunger > Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute > Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology > Stanford University > Web: http://atbweb.stanford.edu > Email: brun...@stanford.edu > Phone: +1 650-736-1031 > Fax: +1 650-745-1463 > > > > > > > > > -- > Thomas D. Grant > Graduate Research Assistant > Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute > 700 Ellicott St. > Buffalo, NY 14203 > 716.908.5289 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. Junior UD (post-doc) Biomolecular NMR, Bijvoet Center Utrecht University Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands P: +31-30-2539931 F: +31-30-2537623 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
