Benjamin Downs Hall

I am very sorry to hear of the passing of a man I greatly admired. It is one of my life regrets that Ben and I did not get acqainted when we were in chemistry at the U of Illinois in the early '60s - he as a young professor, I as a doctoral candidate under Ken Rinehart. Our careers did overlap as the technology of genetic engineering evolved and Ben played a major role in the field. I was impressed by his generosity to the UW and other institutions as the fundamental contributions which...