Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (1938-2006)

摘要

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, a star scientist of first magnitude, a colleague of uncompromising integrity, a great teacher, and warm friend, died on Sunday March 19, 2006, of complications associated with the treatment of lymphoma. Nick was born in New Jersey, the son of immigrants from southern Italy. His father was a shoemaker and his mother worked editing phone books. As a young man, Nick obtained a full scholarship to attend Princeton where he graduated with an A.B. Magna Cum Laude in 1960. He then entered Yale University with the intention of becoming a lawyer, but became instead interested in medical school, which he attended from 1960 to 1961. It was during this period that he realized that his true vocation was research and thus he applied and was admitted to graduate school at Harvard University where he obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1966. Following graduate studies, Nick joined Arthur Kornberg’s laboratory at Stanford, where he became engaged and passionately interested in DNA replication.