Friday, December 31, 2004
A LOSS IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
The Chemistry Department at Ohio State University was shocked to learn that a professor emeritus died in the tidal wave in the Pacific. From This Week, a Columbus area community newspaper:
Mr. (sic) Sundaralingam, 73, was a professor emeritus at Ohio State University's Department of Chemistry. A native of Malaysia, Sundaralingam received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961. After a postdoctoral stint in the University of Washington-Seattle's Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, he was appointed research instructor in the Department of Biological Structure in the same school.
Sundaralingam held a number of prestigious positions throughout his career, including as a research associate in biophysics at Harvard University Medical School, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and as a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo in San Carlos, Brazil. ...
He was among the top 300 of the 1,000 most-cited scientists for work published from 1965 to 1978.
I've been told this was the first time they had visited their homeland in 20 years. They believed it would be safe since the civil war was no longer a threat. They were staying at a hotel on the beach. Their daughter and son-in-law, also Columbus residents, were visiting a mainland city when the tsunami hit and thus escaped the destruction.
