Published by Oxford University Press 2007.
Obituary: Rosalind Hauk Kornfeld (1935–2007)
Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and the Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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On August 10, 2007, the field of Glycobiology lost one of its great pioneers and role models, Rosalind Hauk Kornfeld. Dr. Kornfeld was a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she had served on the faculty for 35 years, before retiring in 2001 due to illness. Born in Dallas, Texas in 1935, Rosalind Kornfeld grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and earned her B.S. in Chemistry at George Washington University in 1957. After obtaining her doctorate in biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis in 1961, she stayed on to do some postdoctoral work there. She then moved to the National Institutes of Health, serving as a postdoctoral fellow and staff fellow during 1963–1965, before finally returning to St. Louis in 1965. There she continued a life-long and fruitful collaboration with her spouse Stuart Kornfeld,