<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Very sad indeed. My condolences to his family.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 18, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Martin Kessel <<a href="mailto:martink1937@gmail.com" class="">martink1937@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Dear Friends,<span class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal">It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing away of our colleague Philip Ross
Smith, who died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday Dec. 16, after a protracted
battle with cancer.</p><div class=""><span class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Ross will be remembered as one of the pioneers of the field
of Three Dimensional (3D) Electron Microscopy as it came to be known in the
late 1960’s and 1970’s. During his early
work at the <i class="">Biozentrum</i> in Basel Ross pioneered
the development of the image processing software package <i class="">Micrograph Data Processing Program</i> (<i class="">MDPP</i>) which he applied to exploring the 3D structural organization
of the bacteriophage T4 capsid and its contractile tail.<span class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span class="">In 1978 Ross joined
the faculty at the <i class="">New York University</i>
School of Medicine where he devoted his career to developing novel computing
resources for education and research in the life sciences and for solving
problems in medical informatics.</span><span class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"> A Memorial for Ross is
being planned for the near future.<span class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal">We extend our deepest condolences to Ross’ wife Marjorie and
daughters Rebecca and Laura.<span class=""></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Ueli Aebi, Andreas Engel, Martin Kessel and Alasdair Steven<span class=""></span></p>
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