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message from Tassos Perakis on the ccp4 bulletin board, as some of
you will have also known Raimond. Raimond was a brilliant and kind
scientist and a dear friend. He will be sorely missed.</div>
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Dear all,
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<div class="">It is with profound sadness I announce the passing
of Raimond Ravelli, one of most remarkable and beloved members
of our scientific community.</div>
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<div class="">Raimond first became widely known to the
crystallographic community with his brilliant “strategy” program
in the 90’s, which he developed as part of his PhD thesis. Later
on, at the EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF, Raimond has been
instrumental in the development of the ID14-EH4 beamline, having
helped numerous colleagues to collect diffraction data and
participating in many exciting scientific projects. At that
time, Raimond also developed his keen interest in radiation
damage, that influenced the ways that we collect and process
X-ray diffraction data even today. Raimond came back to his home
country, the Netherlands, first as an assistant professor at
Leiden University, and then as associate professor at Maastricht
University. During that transition he become an expert in
cryo-electron microscopy. He made numerous contributions also to
his new field, in such a broad spectrum of techniques, that it
would be embarrassing to attempt to enumerate them here. I will
only mention that one piece of his work even became a museum
exhibit at the Leiden museum of natural history.</div>
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<div class="">Raimond has been recently appointed Full Professor
of Structural Biology, at Maastricht University, last November.
His inauguration speech (Oratie) was simply remarkable. I warmly
recommend to anyone to watch it at <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/Gv3pKRp5S2Y?t=667__;!!Mih3wA!Gp0g_H93AMkpB8zP3yM3aSzSO6ZWGdPnQk8SGuZIQxwmgPu3f9suMdcw1wIUKYTqtWvSNico9ZzZKFBd8cP4lPRe_6E$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://youtu.be/Gv3pKRp5S2Y?t=667</a> .
It radiates his enthusiasm for science and is inspiring for all,
in a way that only he himself knew how to do.</div>
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<div class="">Raimond was an accomplished rowing athlete, a
formidable cyclist, and a hiking enthusiast. </div>
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<div class="">For the many of us who have been his friends it has
a been a privilege and an inspiration. Raimond, just 55, leaves
behind him Maaike, an excellent scientist and colleague herself,
and their kids Seppe and Noé. </div>
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<div class="">I have no words that could possibly explain how much
he will be missed.</div>
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