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I ran into Earl Kirkland at a recent Material Science symposium at Cornell University where I was invited as the keynote speaker.  He mentioned a photo (which he now sent) going back to the time I spent in Benjamin Siegel’s lab at Clark Hall, Cornell University, in 1972.  Even though we didn’t overlap, I met him later after I moved to Albany, in 1975.  He adopted and expanded a technique I developed for reconstructing both amplitude and phase of an object from a defocus series (published in  Frank, Biophys. J. 1972).

The photo is remarkable not so much for the long hair  — which was ubiquitous at that time – but for the ancient digital technology, reminiscent of lab equipment in Frankenstein movies.

Hello Joachim,

It was nice to see you again at the Cornell Symposium on Wed.  Thank you very much for a nice talk on your recent work with cry-EM and single particle analysis. Your persistence over many years had paid off very well.  I have attached the old photo we discussed. I think it is of your back (with long hair), sitting in Prof. Siegel’s lab in the early 1970’s (I started in this lab a few years after you left).  Do you ever think about growing your hair long again?

Good Luck,

Earl