Mack Fulwyler as an intellectually and personally outstanding
scientist developed the first piezo driven cell sorter
in 1965 (L1).
Many of us admired his calm and clearcut reasoning
as well as his noble personality.
Numerous facettes of his eventful life have been made
available by family members and friends
(
L2).
A
video
from the
Purdue CD10
documentation brings him back to life for a moment.
Particulary intense moments occured when Mack and myself
were invited guests of the 1st Chinese Cytometry Meeting, April 20-22, 1989,
organized by Prof.Shilong Cao of Shanghai Medical University.
We sensed from the beginning an unexplainable vibrating tension in the audience.
Mack got by chance hold of an International
New York Times newspaper at his hotel and informed the participants about
important public manifestations in Beijing and elsewhere as trigger for the
later Tienamen events.
I am particularly proud to have been awarded with this prestigious prize as
worldwide most prominent award in cytometry.
The memorable trip to China as well as some recent aspects of multiparameter data analysis
are covered by a few
slides
that hopefully will compensate for personal absence from the award
ceremony during the
CYTO2022
congress (Jun 3-7,2022) in Philadelphia due to actual Corona regulations.
Literature References:
L1. Fulwyler MJ.
Electronic separation of biological cells by volume.
Science (1965) 150:910-911.
L2.
Cram LS, Arndt-Jovin D.
Mack Jett Fulwyler, Pioneer of Flow Cytometry and
Flow Sorting (1936–2001).
Cytometry Part A 67A:53–60 (2005)
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