[3dem] Philip Ross Smith
Marin van Heel
marin.vanheel at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 18 14:33:16 PST 2017
Dear Friends
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.
I want to share this picture I took of him at the time.
Thank you Ross,
Marin
On 18/12/2017 19:50, Martin Kessel wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> 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.
>
> 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 /Biozentrum/ in
> Basel Ross pioneered the development of the image processing software
> package /Micrograph Data Processing Program/ (/MDPP/) which he applied
> to exploring the 3D structural organization of the bacteriophage T4
> capsid and its contractile tail.
>
> In 1978 Ross joined the faculty at the /New York University/ 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.
>
> A Memorial for Ross is being planned for the near future.
>
> We extend our deepest condolences to Ross’ wife Marjorie and daughters
> Rebecca and Laura.
>
> Ueli Aebi, Andreas Engel, Martin Kessel and Alasdair Steven
>
>
>
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