Remembering Rollin Hotchkiss (1911–2004)
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics, Edited by James F. Crow and William F. Dove ROLLIN HOTCHKISS, the distinguished biochemist and geneticist, died last December at the age of 93. I met Rollin in the summer of 1945 in Cold Spring Harbor. He had come to take the phage course, which was being offered for the first time that year. He returned as a summer investigator for many years thereafter, and during those summers I came to know him well and to admire him as a superb scientist and an exceptionally fine human being. The last time I saw Rollin was at a gathering to celebrate his 85th birthday, a festivity arranged by his wife, Magda Gabor-Hotchkiss, in Lenox, Massachusetts, where they had lived since 1982. The outpouring of affection and appreciation expressed there by his family, friends, colleagues, and former students was overwhelming. In the same measure that he was loved, he will be missed.
Source: Genetics
Author: Evelyn M Witkin
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1871012702