g., Hoffmann 1998). He was—in the best sense—a traditional educated scholar with high ethical standards and had a deep feeling for the responsibility of scientists to protect and preserve life on earth. Paul Hoffmann is survived by his wife and two daughters. We will remember him as a highly esteemed teacher and supervisor, organizer, prolific researcher and a dear colleague. Selleck Tubastatin A The “Sonderforschungsbereich”
429 will hold a commemorative colloquium to honor Professor Dr. Paul Hoffmann in 2009. We end this tribute by showing three pictures of Paul Hoffmann interacting with several colleagues. Figures 3 and 4 are pictures taken at the “German-Belarus Symposium on Biophysics of Photosynthesis”, Egsdorf, Germany, 2003—probably the last international meeting that Hoffmann attended. Figure 5 shows a photograph of Hoffmann together with other scientists after Govindjee delivered a lecture at the Humboldt University in 2006. Fig. 3 Professor Paul Hoffmann (third
from left) among the participants of the “German-Belarus Symposium on Biophysics of Photosynthesis,” Egsdorf, Germany, 2003. Other participants included: Vladimir Shuvalov, Olga Kaminskaya, Vyacheslav Klimov, Elena Yaronskaya, Wolfhard Rüdiger, Nikolai CX-6258 molecular weight Shalygo, Natalia Averina, Igor Volotovski, Hugo Scheer, Bernhard Grimm, Peter Jahns, Ljudmilla Kalituho, Carsten Tietz, Gernot Renger, Harald Paulsen, Heiko Lokstein, and Dieter Leupold Fig. 4 Professor Paul Hoffmann (left) together with Igor Volotovsky (middle) and Gernot Renger (right), at the “German-Belarus Symposium on Biophysics of Photosynthesis,” Egsdorf, Germany, 2003 Fig. 5 Professor Paul Hoffmann (3rd from right) together with Günter Döring, Ulrich Siggel, Gernot Renger, Govindjee and Annegret Wilde (from left to right) at Humboldt Decitabine price University Berlin, Germany, 2006. Courtesy of Govindjee Acknowledgment We thank Govindjee for editing this manuscript. References Govindjee, Šesták Z, Peters WR (2002) The early history of “Photosynthetica”, “Photosynthesis research”, and their publishers. Photosynthetica 40:1–11. doi:10.1023/A:1020169502548
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