Some details of one controversy Prof. Rich became embroiled in are available
on the wikipedia page for his colleague Sung-Hou Kim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Sung-Hou).
Especially references 6-8, which are scanned copies of correspondence exchanged with the folks at MRC, e.g. the initial accusation: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/SC/B/B/X/Y/_/scbbxy.pdf
On 04/30/2015 09:25 AM, Robert Sweet wrote:
>> I am really sorry to hear this. May his soul rest in peace.
>
> With great respect and affection for Alex, I doubt seriously if he will
> rest in peace. My memory of him as a beamline user was that he was
> demanding and difficult to satisfy, but in the end grateful for the effort
> we exerted, and he always had interesting things to study. I suspect that
> wherever his soul is now he's found something to complain about, and is
> trying to find someone to improve it.
>
> Bob
>
>>
>> Ranti Dev Shukla,
>> Doctoral fellow,
>> Structural Biology laboratory,
>> Chonnam National University,
>> Gwangju, South Korea.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Ho,Shing <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> It is with great sadness to announce that Dr. Alexander Rich, Sedgwick
>>> Professor of Biophysics at MIT, passed away on Monday April 27, 2015 at
>>> Massachusetts General Hospital – he was 90.
>>>
>>> Alex, a member of the RNA tie club, contributed significantly to our
>>> understanding of RNA and DNA structure and function. Scientifically, he was
>>> innovative and often controversial. The list of crystallographers and
>>> structural biologist who trained in Alex’s lab is long, and of those who’s
>>> scientific lives he touched even longer.
>>>
>>> An obituary for Alex has been posted on the MIT web site (
>>> http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/obituary-alexander-rich-dies-90-0428).
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>> P. Shing Ho, Ph.D.
>>> Professor & Chair
>>> Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
>>> 1870 Campus Delivery
>>> Colorado State University
>>> Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870
>>> 970-491-0569 (phone)
>>>
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