John Theodore Lindquist, 1925-2018

Susan Lindquist: a tribute

When I learned that Susan Lindquist had passed away at the age of 67 from cancer, my heart broke. This fierce flame for science and for women had been extinguished, and for a moment the world became a little dimmer. I first met Susan Lindquist in 1994 when I was a postdoc interviewing for a faculty position at the University of Chicago. Wemet for breakfast at a local diner.We talked about our s...

Theodore William Richards

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Susan Lee Lindquist (1949–2016)

Susan Lindquist was internationally renowned for her pioneering discoveries that transformed our understanding of protein homeostasis and the wide array of biological processes it governs. She developed cutting-edge genetics and cell biology technologies; applied them on diverse organisms, including yeast, fruit flies, plants, cavefish, and humans; and tackled and solved previously intractable ...

Professor Theodore A . Burton

T. A. Burton (denoted by T. A. throughout this paper) was born on September 7, 1935 on a farm in Kansas, the fifth child of seven in the family. It was a peak of the Great Depression and when the dust storms wrecked havoc on the Mid-Western United States. Entire buildings were buried in the dust. The economy was so poor that farmers turned their livestock loose and left the area. At the age of ...