IN MEMORY OF RILBE,HARRY - AN OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST WHO MADE MANY VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTROPHORETIC METHODS

In July 1997 Professor Harry Rilbe passed away at the age of 84. Harry Rilbe was an outstanding personality skilled in chemistry, optics and mathematics, and he will be remembered for his important contribution s to the development of separation methods, notably moving boundary el ectrophoresis and isoelectric focusing. The latter method is used for analytical and preparative purposes in thousands of laboratories world wide. Isoelectric focusing is indispensable for characterization of pr oteins from humans, animals, plants and microorganisms. Isoelectric fo cusing is thus useful for the understanding of the function of genes a nd, accordingly, for progress in the life sciences. A biographical ret rospect, ''A scientific life with chemistry, optics and mathematics': was published by Harry Rilbe in Electrophoresis 1984, 5, 1-17.