Introduction 10th International Botanical Microscopy Meeting Special Issue

In memoriam – Chris Hawes

“…Chris's lasting accomplishments as a plant microscopist spanning more than 40 years made use of a wide range of microscopy techniques (Figure ), and he often pioneered the application of emerging new techniques and technology to plant specimens, concurring with his friend Peter Hepler that ‘new discoveries in cell structure and function are closely intertwined with new developments in instrumentation, and specimen preparation, together with exploitation of model organisms’ (Hepler, ). His outstanding scientific quality is expressed in more than 160 high‐impact scientific papers and about 50 review articles with currently more than 13 000 citations and a Google Scholar h‐index of 64.…”