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Michael Berndt is dead (fwd)
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- From: "I. David Brown" <idbrown@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:51:31 +0100 (BST)
I thought members of the Phase Identifier Committee of the IUCr Nomenclature Commission would wish to know of the untimely death of one of our members. I invited Michael to join our group after we had started our work because he had several excellent ideas gained from his work on the Pauling File. Much of the current version of our proposed phase identifier is the result of his contribution and his input will be greatly missed. Best wishes David ***************************************************** Dr.I.David Brown, Professor Emeritus Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Tel: 1-(905)-525-9140 ext 24710 Fax: 1-(905)-521-2773 idbrown@mcmaster.ca ***************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:16:36 +0200 From: Klaus Brandenburg <info@crystalimpact.de> To: I D Brown <idbrown@McMaster.ca> Subject: Michael Berndt is dead Bonn, 1 July 2003 We are sorry to report the death of our long-term partner Dr. Michael Berndt. Yesterday he died after a long, serious illness at the age of 39. Michael studied chemistry and received his PhD in 1995 in the group of Prof. Bergerhoff at the university of Bonn, Germany. Even during his studies he was active in writing chemistry software. For the retrieval software of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), he won the German-Austrian Academic Software Award in 1993. In 1997, he founded the company Crystal Impact together with Dr. Klaus Brandenburg. Michael was substantially involved in the development of the Browser software for the Inorganic Materials Database "Pauling File". Based on his long-term experience in this area, he started with a new, universally applicable system for the simultaneous access to diverse crystallographic databases. With Michael we lose an always competent, reliable and helpful colleague. Dr. Klaus Brandenburg und Dr. Holger Putz Crystal Impact GbR Postfach 1251 D-53002 Bonn Tel.: +49 - 228 - 9 81 36 43 Fax: +49 - 228 - 9 81 36 44 Web: http://www.crystalimpact.com
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