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Dear Friends<br>
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Sorry to hear this sad news. Ross co-organized the first
international image processing meeting I attended. I still have
great memories of that pioneering event at the Biozentrum in Basel
in 1977. <br>
I want to share this picture I took of him at the time.<br>
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Thank you Ross,<br>
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Marin<br>
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On 18/12/2017 19:50, Martin Kessel wrote:<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Dear Friends,<span></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>
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<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>Biozentrum</i> in Basel Ross pioneered
the development of the image processing software package <i>Micrograph
Data Processing Program</i> (<i>MDPP</i>) which he applied
to exploring the 3D structural organization
of the bacteriophage T4 capsid and its contractile tail.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span>In 1978 Ross joined
the faculty at the <i>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></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"> A Memorial for Ross is
being planned for the near future.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">We extend our deepest condolences to
Ross’ wife Marjorie and
daughters Rebecca and Laura.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Ueli Aebi, Andreas Engel, Martin
Kessel and Alasdair Steven<span></span></p>
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