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Obituary of Prof. Stöcklin, Sydney, August 10, 2003
Nuclear Medicine and Biology 31 (2004) 531
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Obituary of Prof. Sto¨cklin, Sydney, August 10, 2003 Dear colleagues and friends, I kindly request you to join me in a moment of memory of Prof. Gerhard Sto¨cklin, who suddenly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this year on March 15 and whom most of us knew personally. As one of the founding fathers of this series of symposia and working in the field of radiopharmaceutical chemistry for more than three decades, he was a very much respected colleague, a teacher in a direct or indirect way, or even a friend, to many of us. Born in 1930 as a son of a chemist, he studied chemistry in Bonn and Mainz. His Ph.D. degree in 1960 was followed by 2 postdoctoral years with Al Wolf at BNL. He became Professor at the University of Cologne and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry at the Research Centre Ju¨lich, Germany, in 1970. Like many other pioneers in our field of research, he first specialized in hot atom chemistry but then concentrated more and more on radiopharmaceutical chemistry. With too many contributions to be mentioned in detail in the areas of nuclide production, labelling methods, and tracer development, he surely influenced the profile of modern nuclear medicine in Germany and abroad. His life work is summarized in more than 300 publications and books but also is reflected in almost 60 Ph.D. students, many of whom are working in radiopharmaceutical chemistry today. Beyond this, he served in many scientific committees and functions in our center, in Germany and abroad, and was (co)editor of several journals. He had a strong creative will, Prussian discipline, dedication to science, and a vision. Even after retirement in 1995 he helped to establish a radiochemistry group at the TU Munich and acted as founding director of the Isotope-Institute in Leipzig, each for 3 years.
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In recognition of his scientific achievements he received many honors. To name the most important ones: the honorary doctor degree of the University of Debrecen, Hungary; the Bequerel Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain; the Abersold Award of the SNM; and honorary memberships of the Swiss and German Societies of Nuclear Medicine. I thank you for keeping his memory in honor. Heinz H. Coenen
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Obituary of Prof. Sto¨cklin, Sydney, August 10, 2003 Dear colleagues and friends, I kindly request you to join me in a moment of memory of Prof. Gerhard Sto¨cklin, who suddenly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this year on March 15 and whom most of us knew personally. As one of the founding fathers of this series of symposia and working in the field of radiopharmaceutical chemistry for more than three decades, he was a very much respected colleague, a teacher in a direct or indirect way, or even a friend, to many of us. Born in 1930 as a son of a chemist, he studied chemistry in Bonn and Mainz. His Ph.D. degree in 1960 was followed by 2 postdoctoral years with Al Wolf at BNL. He became Professor at the University of Cologne and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry at the Research Centre Ju¨lich, Germany, in 1970. Like many other pioneers in our field of research, he first specialized in hot atom chemistry but then concentrated more and more on radiopharmaceutical chemistry. With too many contributions to be mentioned in detail in the areas of nuclide production, labelling methods, and tracer development, he surely influenced the profile of modern nuclear medicine in Germany and abroad. His life work is summarized in more than 300 publications and books but also is reflected in almost 60 Ph.D. students, many of whom are working in radiopharmaceutical chemistry today. Beyond this, he served in many scientific committees and functions in our center, in Germany and abroad, and was (co)editor of several journals. He had a strong creative will, Prussian discipline, dedication to science, and a vision. Even after retirement in 1995 he helped to establish a radiochemistry group at the TU Munich and acted as founding director of the Isotope-Institute in Leipzig, each for 3 years.
0969-8051/04/$ – see front matter doi:10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2003.11.002
In recognition of his scientific achievements he received many honors. To name the most important ones: the honorary doctor degree of the University of Debrecen, Hungary; the Bequerel Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain; the Abersold Award of the SNM; and honorary memberships of the Swiss and German Societies of Nuclear Medicine. I thank you for keeping his memory in honor. Heinz H. Coenen