Gosh Roberto,
I met Aksel at CMU long long ago when that homebuilt 600 Joe Dadok &
Scotty Chesnick soldered together with others was new. What a beautiful
mind is such a fitting statement. Some years ago when Don Davis, another
author for CAMELSPIN, passed at such an early age back in RTP, NC
Aksel's kindness really touched me.
Thank you for this beautiful and touching notification.
Ron
On 2/15/2017 1:01 PM, Roberto R. Gil wrote:
> Dear NMR Colleagues,
>
> It is with deepest sorrow that I inform you of the passing away of
> Carnegie Mellon Emeritus Professor Aksel Bothner-By (April 29, 1921 -
> February 13, 2017).
>
> Our colleague, Prof. Paterson remembers Aksel as: "one-of-a-kind".
> "He celebrated his last day of teaching with champagne at the lectern.
> He served sherry at faculty meetings"
>
> Aksel had a beautiful mind. He was an Organic Chemist who dedicated
> his life to NMR with a lot of passion. He got the PhD from Harvard
> with Robert B. Woodward in 1949.
>
> For most of us, Aksel does not need introduction and was mostly known
> for being the creator of the CAMELSPIN experiment, later renamed to
> ROESY. But his contributions to NMR go beyond that. He wrote the first
> program to perform spin simulations. He built the first 600 MHz
> instrument when the highest commercially available magnet was 350 MHz.
> He reported the first negative NOE and he measured the first RDCs in a
> small molecule partially oriented using a paramagnetic atom.
>
> I was very fortunate to know him personally and to be able to organize
> a symposium honoring him together with Prof. Joe Dadok in 2009. It was
> by the time of the 50th ENC that Aksel was not able to attend due to
> his health problems.
>
> Amy Pavlak, wrote a CMU press release in 2009 about the event and
> about Aksel; where you can read about his achievements:
>
> https://www.cmu.edu/mcs/news/pressreleases/2009/0317-bothnerby-NMR-symposium.html
>
> Roberto
>
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Received on Thu Feb 16 2017 - 08:37:20 MST