Very sad news to me indeed. Alexei is a great scientist from whom I have
leant a lot. There are so many cherishing memories of working with him.
May his soul rest in peace.
Fei
On 2023-03-26 19:29, Eugene Krissinel - STFC UKRI wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> It is with a great sadness that I share with you that Alexey Vagin
> passed away this Saturday in the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after
> suffering from a heart attack with subsequent complications. He was 78
> years old.
>
> Alexey made many developments in methods and software for
> macromolecular crystallography, to which he devoted his whole life. He
> is known for his BLANC Suite for structure solution done at the Moscow
> Institute of Crystallography in the 1980s, as well as for his
> contributions to Refmac and Monomer Library. Many thousands of
> researchers have benefited from his work on Molrep and Balbes software
> for Molecular Replacement. After his retirement in 2010, Alexey
> developed and actively maintained the MorDA software for MR, which
> became a monument to his efforts.
>
> Alexey's work will continue to serve generations of researchers
> through his contributions to CCP4, where we will take the best care of
> his distinguished legacy.
>
> With sympathy to everyone who knew Alexey personally and for whom
> this is very sad news,
>
> Eugene
--
Dr. Fei Long
Structural Studies Division
UKRI Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Francis Crick Avenue,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus,
Cambridge
CB2 0QH UK
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