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Ira

Gregory A Petsko

Author Affiliations

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA

Genome Biology 2003, 4:112 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-6-112

Published: 19 May 2003

For a quarter of a century in genetics if you said Ira the chances were you meant Ira Herskowitz. When he died, on April 28 this year, it left a hole in the fields of genetics and genomics the size of the Grand Canyon.