Warwick Hillier: a tribute

Messinger, Johannes; Debus, Richard J.; Dismukes, G. Charles

doi:10.1007/s11120-014-0025-5

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“…With his first Master student, the late Warwick Hillier (Fig. 5a) (Messinger et al 2014) Tom investigated the peroxide release of Photosystem II centers deprived of their extrinsic proteins (Hillier and Wydrzynski 1993). In collaboration with G. Fischer, Tom’s first PhD student, Haoming Zhang, employed then FTIR spectroscopy to study the effects of H 2 O 2 and high light on the protein conformation of PSII (Zhang et al 1995; Yamamoto et al 1998).…”

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Thomas John Wydrzynski (8 July 1947–16 March 2018)

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2018

Photosynth Res

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With this Tribute, we remember and honor Thomas John (Tom) Wydrzynski. Tom was a highly innovative, independent and committed researcher, who had, early in his career, defined his life-long research goal. He was committed to understand how Photosystem II produces molecular oxygen from water, using the energy of sunlight, and to apply this knowledge towards making artificial systems. In this tribute, we summarize his research journey, which involved working on ‘soft money’ in several laboratories around the world for many years, as well as his research achievements. We also reflect upon his approach to life, science and student supervision, as we perceive it. Tom was not only a thoughtful scientist that inspired many to enter this field of research, but also a wonderful supervisor and friend, who is deeply missed (see footnote*).

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