Published online 2 June 2004
Nucleic Acids Research, 2004, Vol. 32, No. 10 2975-2976
© 2004 Oxford University Press
Obituary
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Robert Simpson, a molecular biologist with a long history of fundamental contributions to our understanding of chromatin chemistry and biology, died on April 21, 2004. Bob received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard, where he worked with Bert Vallee on the physical chemistry of metalloproteins. In 1969 he came to NIH, where he was to spend the next 25 years, and began almost at once to address problems of histoneDNA interactions and their role in organizing chromatin structure. He
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