Obituaries

In memoriam: Arnis Kuksis

He was a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who studied the complex mechanisms dictating lipid metabolism and an ASBMB member for more than 40 years.

In memoriam: Horst Schulz

He was a professor emeritus at City College of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan whose work concentrated on increasing our understanding of mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism and an ASBMB member since 1971.

In memoriam: Bengt Samuelsson

He was a Nobel laureate, a professor at the Karolinska Institute, a lipid biochemist and an ASBMB member for almost 50 years.

In memoriam: Bruce Ames

He invented a cheap and easy way to assess mutagenicity that helped identify many environmental and industrial carcinogens; it became known as the Ames test.

In memoriam: William L. Smith

He served as associate editor of both the Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of Lipid Research and was an ASBMB member for more than 40 years.

Donald J. Graves (1933–2024)

Two of Don Graves’ sons remember the father who worked in two Nobel labs — and inspired their careers in biochemistry.

In memoriam: Roger Thibert

He was a professor emeritus of clinical biochemistry at the University of Windsor, an expert on assay development for medical laboratory diagnostics and an ASBMB member since 1970.

In memoriam: Donald J. Graves

He was a biochemist and educator, an ASBMB member for almost 60 years and a former member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry editorial board.

In memoriam: Robert Warren Newburgh

He was a distinguished developmental and cell biologist and a member of the ASBMB since 1957.