Remembering Rollin Hotchkiss (1911–2004)

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.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 13 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.