A unique venue of discoveries in structural chemistry and structural biology: the 75-year and 60-year jubilees of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology—a personal tribute

In 1962, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, moved into a new building and continued a success story that had begun 15 before. Milestone discoveries and Nobel Prizes have followed ever since. They have led to profound changes in our basic ideas about the nature of life and the way medicine operates. Structural chemistry has paved the way for this unprecedented progress.

John Robert Lawrence Allen FRS, FSA (25 October 1932–18 October 2020): a personal tribute

John Robert Lawrence Allen (Fig. 1), an internationally distinguished sedimentologist, was born on 25 October 1932 in Birmingham, UK. He died in Thatcham, UK, on 18 October 2020, aged 87, after a short illness.

A Personal Tribute to Robert B. Sim with Reflections on Our Work Together on Factor H

Robert (Bob) Sim had a profound effect on almost every aspect of my approach to scientific research, acting as a mentor and moral compass through the many different stages of my career [...]

Complement’s C1 Complex, Factor H and the X Factor: A Personal Tribute to Prof. Robert B. Sim

It is with great sadness that I am writing this obituary for my mentor, colleague and friend, Bob, i [...]

A Personal Tribute to a Highly Inspiring Mentor, Professor Sir Peter J. Lachmann, 1931–2020

With great sadness and sympathy for his family, especially for his wife and companion for many decades, Sylvia, I convey the news of the peaceful passing of Professor Sir Peter Lachmann on 26 December 2020, three days after his 89th birthday and after a Christmas celebration—as far as this was possible these days—in the heart of his family [...]