✍ Scribed by Ray D. Owen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The death of Bill Hildemann on September 8, 1983, from amyotropic lateral sclerosis, deprived the world community of immunogeneticists of one of its most devoted and effective leaders. Bill was an author of 79 publications in the phylogeny of immunity, 51 in immunogenetics, 46 in mammalian transplantation biology, 15 in tumor immunology, and 8 in biochemistry, ecology and experimental zoology; in all these areas his research contributions were important. He was intellectually active to very near his death, with nine titles in 1983, including a textbook, Essentials of Immunology, which is in press. Many additional studies were completed by graduate students or fellows under his immediate guidance, on whose publications he did not include his name as an author. He was responsible, as editor and contributor, co-author or author, for six major books; he organized many symposia, chaired a number of committees, and was involved in the foundation of two new international journals. He carried out important administrative responsibilities at University of California, Los Angeles, unselfishly and very effectively, and he taught, helped, and guided a series of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows as well as innumerable undergraduates. He was an unfailing source of wisdom and encouragement to many others, all over the~world.
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