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Joshua LaBaer
In Memoriam: Csaba Horváth (1930–2004)
Harvard Medical School
György Marko-Varga AstraZeneca and Lund University
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Ruedi H. Aebersold Institute for Systems Biology
Leigh Anderson Plasma Proteome Institute
Ettore Appella National Cancer Institute
Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute
Ronald Beavis Manitoba Centre for Proteomics
Walter Blackstock Cellzome
Brian Chait The Rockefeller University
Patrick L. Coleman 3M
Christine Colvis National Institutes of Health
Catherine Fenselau University of Maryland
Daniel Figeys MDS Proteomics
Sam Hanash University of Michigan
Stanley Hefta Bristol-Myers Squibb
Donald F. Hunt University of Virginia
Barry L. Karger Northeastern University
Daniel C. Liebler Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Lance Liotta National Cancer Institute
Matthias Mann University of Southern Denmark
Stephen A. Martin Applied Biosystems
ur dear colleague and friend Csaba Horváth, professor of chemical engineering at Yale University, passed away on April 13, 2004. Csaba was born in Szolnok, Hungary, in 1930 and remained a true Hungarian throughout his life, although he spent most of it outside his native country. He received a degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University in Budapest, but the sad political events in Hungary in 1956 compelled Csaba to leave the country. His first stop was Germany. He became a research scientist in the group of Prof. István Halász in Frankfurt in 1960. Later, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, he began his research career at Harvard and then moved to the Yale University School of Medicine. In 1979, he became a professor at the Mason Laboratories at Yale. Because HPLC is so important to the emerging field of proteomics, it is essential to note that Csaba was a true pioneer in separations technology. Liquid-phase separation was the primary area that he liked and contributed to throughout his career, in both theoretical and experimental aspects. Csaba, along with J. Calvin Giddings and J. F. K. Huber, developed the concept of the first HPLC instruments. In February 2004, Csaba was elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for pioneering the concept and the reduction to practice of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and for leadership in the development of bioanalytical techniques.” Csaba felt the responsibility of bringing young scientists—and more mature ones, too—from Hungary and other nations (even from as far away as Australia) together. He took pride in helping them to get to know each other personally and in keeping close track of their career developments. Curiosity was the driving force in Csaba, and it led to many amusing and exciting discussions. During such interactions, he was outspoken and had a clear view of his own standards and theoretical insights. However, there was always a kind and delicate elegance that he used to guide a discussion into a soundly based direction, mixing the theoretical correction with a strong flavor of humor that we enjoyed so much. As a true humanist, teacher, historian—and, above all, a man with a great heart—Csaba served as an excellent example for us to follow. The American Chemical Society listed Csaba among great individuals, such as Francis Crick and James Watson, Linus Pauling, Pierre and Marie Curie, and Ernest Rutherford, who have contributed most to the development of chemistry in the 20th century. Csaba, you will be missed, although you are with us in the field of proteomics in the application of separations technology to the most difficult of biological samples.
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Jeremy Nicholson Imperial College London
Gilbert S. Omenn University of Michigan
Emanuel Petricoin Food and Drug Administration
J. Michael Ramsey Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Pier Giorgio Righetti University of Verona
John T. Stults Biospect
Peter Wagner Zyomyx
Keith Williams Proteome Systems
Qi-Chang Xia Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry
John R. Yates, III The Scripps Research Institute
© 2004 American Chemical Society
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