Abstract:
:With this Tribute, we remember and honor Thomas John (Tom) Wydrzynski. Tom was a highly innovative, independent and committed researcher, who had, early in his career, defined his life-long research goal. He was committed to understand how Photosystem II produces molecular oxygen from water, using the energy of sunlight, and to apply this knowledge towards making artificial systems. In this tribute, we summarize his research journey, which involved working on 'soft money' in several laboratories around the world for many years, as well as his research achievements. We also reflect upon his approach to life, science and student supervision, as we perceive it. Tom was not only a thoughtful scientist that inspired many to enter this field of research, but also a wonderful supervisor and friend, who is deeply missed (see footnote*).
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Photosynth Resjournal_title
Photosynthesis researchauthors
Conlan B,Govindjee,Messinger Jdoi
10.1007/s11120-018-0606-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-06-01 00:00:00pages
253-261issue
3eissn
0166-8595issn
1573-5079pii
10.1007/s11120-018-0606-9journal_volume
140pub_type
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-007-9244-3
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00020595
更新日期:1980-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-016-0287-1
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-008-9341-y
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/A:1024944606930
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/A:1020493518379
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00029737
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-013-9936-9
更新日期:2013-10-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00016551
更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s11120-012-9768-z
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00118308
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/B:PRES.0000006914.52898.67
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00039484
更新日期:1988-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s11120-013-9928-9
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00047172
更新日期:1989-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00019041
更新日期:1994-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00014677
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/A:1014915900644
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-005-9004-1
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00034783
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-011-9645-1
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/A:1016093127057
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00032823
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s11120-012-9761-6
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/A:1025850230977
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cyanobacteria, algae, and plants produce dioxygen from water. Driven and clocked by light quanta, the catalytic Mn(4)Ca Tyrosine centre accumulates four oxidizing equivalents before it abstracts four electrons from water and liberates dioxygen and protons. Intermediates of this reaction cascade are short-lived (<100 m...
journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-008-9321-2
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oxygen may enhance CO2-saturated photosynthesis in intact leaves, which display the Warburg effect when illuminated at the current atmospheric level of CO2 and O2, of about 350 microl l(-1) and 21%, respectively. The magnitude of the stimulation depends on irradiance. The K(M)(O2) of the stimulation is 128 microM (10....
journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-006-9050-3
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02185435
更新日期:1993-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00033035
更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The previous work in our lab showed that the spinach chloroplast ATP synthase epsilon mutant with 3 amino acid residues deleted from the N-terminus had much lower ability to inhibit ATP hydrolysis and block proton leakage in comparison to a mutant with 1 or 2 residues deleted from the N-terminus. The present study aim...
journal_title:Photosynthesis research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s11120-004-6554-6
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00