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Obituaries

Obituary: Bacon Ke

by Nina Notman, special to C&EN
August 19, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 29

 

Bacon Ke.
Credit: Courtesy of Teruo Ogawa
Bacon Ke

Bacon Ke, 101, died May 20 in San Francisco, California.

“Bacon Ke was a pioneer of research in the primary photochemistry of photosynthesis. In addition, he was one of the top instrumentalists of his time and an author of a book on chemistry of photosynthesis, published both in Chinese and English.”—Govindjee Govindjee, friend

Most recent title: Research leader, Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory

Education: BS, chemistry, Tongji University, 1943; BS, biology, Wuhan University, 1945; PhD, chemistry, Wayne State University, 1959

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