“A New Understanding of the Way Enzymes Work” says the headline on a press release published by Science Daily. Jerry Lettvin [pictured here] heralded this breakthrough long before it happened. Jerry said: “Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.”
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Obit of Jerry Lettvin (plus Leary/Lettvin video)
Janelle Lawrence’s obituary of Jerry Lettvin appears in today’s Boston Globe. Lawrence captures quite a bit of the Jerry-ness. It begins: MIT professor emeritus Jerome Lettvin [pictured here, around 1960] was best known for his work on the 1959 paper “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain.’’ His measurements of “bug detectors’’ in frogs’ […]
Jerry Lettvin is gone
Further very sad news (following so soon after the death of Bill Lipscomb): My good friend and longtime collaborator Jerry Lettvin died this week. Jerry was such a huge—in almost every sense—figure that he and his work defied quick description. But I’ll try. This is from a book I started writing more than a decade […]