Roger William Jeanloz
Roger William Jeanloz, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died shortly before his 90th birthday on September 28, 2007, in the south of France where he was on holiday with his wife, Dorothea. Dr. Jeanloz was a leading, highly productive scientist in the field of chemistry and function of complex carbohydrates, a field more recently termed glycobiology. He was born in Switzerland and had his early education at the University of Geneva where he performed the work for his D. Sc. thesis with Professor Kurt Meyer, well-known for research on the chemistry of starch and cellulose, and later with the Nobel laureate Thadeus Reichstein, on the chemistry of deoxy sugars. Roger spent a year in Montreal followed by a stint in Dr. Claude Hudson’s laboratory at the NIH and three years at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology where the chemistry and biology of steroid...