Herbert Alexander Sober: 1918–1974

✍ Scribed by Alton Meister

• Book ID: 102628158
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 262 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2697
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(75)90751-4

✦ Synopsis

Herbert Sober's important scientific contributions, especially the development of modified celluloses (such as DEAE-cellulose)

and their application to the separation of macromolecules, have had a very substantial impact on progress in the broad fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. Herbert Sober was a warm, delightful, and generous man; most of all, he was that rarity, a thoroughly genuine human being. His remarkable scientific acumen and personality won him the friendship of many scientific colleagues as well as others. His death on November 16, 1974, brought to many a sense of deep sorrow and great 298