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Ross, Nancy

Sat, Sep 21, 2024 12:52 AM

Dear colleagues
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jerry Gibbs passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19th at the age of 96.

Jerry enjoyed a life full of enthusiasm and an incredible scientific career. He created a new view of chemical bonding in minerals based on electron density calculations. Jerry was also an inspirational teacher and mentor. His students and postdocs read like a "Who's Who" in Mineralogy.
Jerry's passing is well described by an old Irish proverb: "Don't think that he is gone but that he was here."

We are preparing a tribute for Jerry and will share more information when available.
Nancy Ross
Gordon Brown
Mike Hochella

Dear colleagues It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jerry Gibbs passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19th at the age of 96. Jerry enjoyed a life full of enthusiasm and an incredible scientific career. He created a new view of chemical bonding in minerals based on electron density calculations. Jerry was also an inspirational teacher and mentor. His students and postdocs read like a "Who's Who" in Mineralogy. Jerry's passing is well described by an old Irish proverb: "Don't think that he is gone but that he was here." We are preparing a tribute for Jerry and will share more information when available. Nancy Ross Gordon Brown Mike Hochella

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George Harlow

Sat, Sep 21, 2024 3:32 PM

Nancy,
Thanks for the sad news. Jerry was definitely a giant in the field, and I consider it an honor to have known him.
Condolences,
George

George E. Harlow gharlow@amnh.org mailto:gharlow@amnh.org
Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5102 U.S.A.
Phone (212)769-5378 FAX (212)769-5533
WWW: http://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/george-e.-harlow
http://research.amnh.org/eps/jade/

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Dear colleagues

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jerry Gibbs passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19th at the age of 96.

Jerry enjoyed a life full of enthusiasm and an incredible scientific career. He created a new view of chemical bonding in minerals based on electron density calculations. Jerry was also an inspirational teacher and mentor. His students and postdocs read like a "Who's Who" in Mineralogy.

Jerry's passing is well described by an old Irish proverb: "Don't think that he is gone but that he was here."

We are preparing a tribute for Jerry and will share more information when available.

Nancy Ross
Gordon Brown
Mike Hochella

Nancy, Thanks for the sad news. Jerry was definitely a giant in the field, and I consider it an honor to have known him. Condolences, George George E. Harlow gharlow@amnh.org<mailto:gharlow@amnh.org> Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences American Museum of Natural History 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5102 U.S.A. Phone (212)769-5378 FAX (212)769-5533 WWW: http://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/george-e.-harlow http://research.amnh.org/eps/jade/ From: Ross, Nancy via MSA-talk <msa-talk@minlists.org> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2024 8:53 PM To: MSA-talk@minlists.org Subject: [MSA-talk] Jerry Gibbs EXTERNAL SENDER Dear colleagues It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jerry Gibbs passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19th at the age of 96. Jerry enjoyed a life full of enthusiasm and an incredible scientific career. He created a new view of chemical bonding in minerals based on electron density calculations. Jerry was also an inspirational teacher and mentor. His students and postdocs read like a "Who's Who" in Mineralogy. Jerry's passing is well described by an old Irish proverb: "Don't think that he is gone but that he was here." We are preparing a tribute for Jerry and will share more information when available. Nancy Ross Gordon Brown Mike Hochella

GJ

Ganguly, Jibamitra - (ganguly)

Sat, Sep 21, 2024 6:41 PM

Jerry Gibbs was a frequent visitor to our department when he had a collaborative research program with Bob Downs. I came to know Jerry quite closely during that period and got together with him and his wife a few times for dinner in our house. We kept in touch even after Jerry stopped visiting us. Anything that I could say about Jerry’s scientific contributions would be redundant as I am sure that those will be highlighted by his many stellar students and colleagues. The personal side of Jerry that I saw was that of a very warm and compassionate human being, always eager to help in any way that he could. He had an enormous passion for science, doing hands-on frontier level research in quantum mineralogy, a field of which he was a founding father, even when he was in the mid-eighties, and he generously shared key ideas with others. Over the dinner table, he shared with me interesting stories about his transformation to quantum mineralogy from conventional mineralogical crystallography with the help of Prof. Robert Mulliken, while he was a post-doc at my alma mater, The University of Chicago.
Jiba

Jibamitra Ganguly
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geosciences
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Gangul http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Gangulyy

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Dear colleagues

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jerry Gibbs passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19th at the age of 96.

Jerry enjoyed a life full of enthusiasm and an incredible scientific career. He created a new view of chemical bonding in minerals based on electron density calculations. Jerry was also an inspirational teacher and mentor. His students and postdocs read like a “Who’s Who” in Mineralogy.

Jerry’s passing is well described by an old Irish proverb: “Don’t think that he is gone but that he was here.”

We are preparing a tribute for Jerry and will share more information when available.

Nancy Ross

Gordon Brown

Mike Hochella

Jerry Gibbs was a frequent visitor to our department when he had a collaborative research program with Bob Downs. I came to know Jerry quite closely during that period and got together with him and his wife a few times for dinner in our house. We kept in touch even after Jerry stopped visiting us. Anything that I could say about Jerry’s scientific contributions would be redundant as I am sure that those will be highlighted by his many stellar students and colleagues. The personal side of Jerry that I saw was that of a very warm and compassionate human being, always eager to help in any way that he could. He had an enormous passion for science, doing hands-on frontier level research in quantum mineralogy, a field of which he was a founding father, even when he was in the mid-eighties, and he generously shared key ideas with others. Over the dinner table, he shared with me interesting stories about his transformation to quantum mineralogy from conventional mineralogical crystallography with the help of Prof. Robert Mulliken, while he was a post-doc at my alma mater, The University of Chicago. Jiba ----------------------------------------- Jibamitra Ganguly Professor Emeritus, Department of Geosciences University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721, USA http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Gangul<http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Ganguly>y ________________________________ From: Ross, Nancy via MSA-talk <msa-talk@minlists.org> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2024 5:52 PM To: MSA-talk@minlists.org <MSA-talk@minlists.org> Subject: [EXT] [MSA-talk] Jerry Gibbs External Email ________________________________ Dear colleagues It is with great sadness that we share the news that Jerry Gibbs passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19th at the age of 96. Jerry enjoyed a life full of enthusiasm and an incredible scientific career. He created a new view of chemical bonding in minerals based on electron density calculations. Jerry was also an inspirational teacher and mentor. His students and postdocs read like a “Who’s Who” in Mineralogy. Jerry’s passing is well described by an old Irish proverb: “Don’t think that he is gone but that he was here.” We are preparing a tribute for Jerry and will share more information when available. Nancy Ross Gordon Brown Mike Hochella