The nine lives of Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. (1920-2007)

摘要

The scientific world lost a friend and pioneer with the passing of Dan Koshland on July 23rd of this year. Dan's singular contributions have left an indelible mark on those who had the pleasure of his company. In rough chronological order, he started as an inorganic chemist, then became an organic chemist, a biochemist, a professor, a department chair, the Editor-in-Chief of PNAS and then of Science, the czar of life sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the last 10 years of his life, a benefactor and elder statesman. His model of science and service has inspired generations of young scholars.