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Simon Chan, Associate Professor of Plant Biology at the University of California, Davis, died on August 22 at the age of 38. He had been suffering from primary sclerosing cholangitis, an autoimmune disorder, and developed complications while awaiting a liver transplant. 

When botanist Katherine Esau died June 4, 1997, at age 99, Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, remembered that she “absolutely dominated the field of plant anatomy and morphology for several decades. She set the stage for all kinds of modern advances in plant physiology and molecular biology.”