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- W2893515415 abstract "I first met Jack Aviv in the summer of 1997 when Alexander Rich and I jointly purchased a circular dichroism (CD) instrument from Aviv Biomedical to be installed in Alex's laboratory. At that time, MIT already had five Aviv CD spectropolarimeters in several laboratories inthe Departments of Biology and Chemistry, and I personally used all of the instruments to study various aspects of self-assembling peptides. However, these five units were frequently overbooked, therefore I sometimes had to wait several weeks before I could perform experiments. Eventually, using a special instrumentation grant in which we had specifically requested to purchase an Aviv CD spectrometer, we bought our own instrument. On the day of its arrival, I was there to meet the field engineer who was going to install our instrument. To my great surprise, the ‘field engineer' was Jack Aviv himself, the founder of the famous Aviv Instruments company! I learned that he had got up about 3 am and driven five hours from Lakewood, New Jersey to MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As I watched, he loaded the CD instrument bearing his name onto a large cart, moved it to the right location in the lab, unloaded it, systematically installed it, and ran various controls to make sure everything worked perfectly. I later learned Jack had personally installed nearly every Aviv instrument worldwide since the early 1970s. I believe he is the only founder and CEO who carried out such installations. For me, it was such a rare observation and humbling experience. I met and talked with Jack at numerous locations around the world. We also frequently talked on the phone. I learned a great deal from Jack, about his background, his ideas, and why he was so eager to support young people. Jack told me that in New York when he was young, he met a generous person from Mexico who recognized that Jack was a promising young student, later sponsoring his college education but never requesting financial remuneration. Jack felt he needed to pay by doing the same for others, namely support promising young scientists. He did indeed! Jack installing a new unit of his Aviv CD spectrometer at Boston University Medical School, May 2016 Jack and Florence Aviv at the 3rd Self-assembling Peptide and Protein Crete workshop, Crete, Greece, 2003 Jack Aviv (3rd from the right) at the Mykonos Workshop of Protein Biotechnology, May 2009 (left). Jack Aviv (3rd from the left) and others including Uwe Sleytr, Robert Langer, Steve Yang, Joel and Changming Janin, Alan and Marilyn Fersht, Jörg Labahn, Lotta Tegler and Shuguang Zhang at the Workshop of Protein Biotechnology, Le Mans, France, July 2013 (right). (Courtesy of Dr Marc Rioult, with permission.) Jack was invited to celebrate Professor Sir Alan Fersht's lifetime achievement award at the University of Cambridge, U.K., 2010. Jack Aviv and Alan Fersht at Trinity College Cambridge (left). Jack Aviv in front of the DNA plaque at the Eagle Pub where the DNA double helix structure was first announced - “We have discovered the secret of life” - by Francis Crick (right)" @default.
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- W2893515415 title "Jack Aviv: An incredible, generous and humble human being" @default.
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