[sdpd] Sad news

[Armel Le Bail <alb...@cristal.org>]

Sad news about one of the main COD initiators, Michael Berndt.

By email from Dr. Klaus Brandenburg and Dr. Holger Putz : 

Michael Berndt died on June 30th, 2003 after a long, serious illness at the 
age of 39.

Michael studied chemistry and received his PhD in 1995 in the group of Prof. 
Bergerhoff at the university of Bonn, Germany. Even during his studies he 
was active in writing chemistry software. For the retrieval software of the 
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), he won the German-Austrian 
Academic Software Award in 1993. In 1997, he founded the company Crystal 
Impact together with Dr. Klaus Brandenburg. Michael was substantially 
involved in the development of the Browser software for the Inorganic 
Materials Database "Pauling File". Based on his long-term experience in this 
area, he started with a new, universally applicable system for the 
simultaneous access to diverse crystallographic databases.

With Michael we lose an always competent, reliable and helpful colleague.




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