TY - JOUR
T1 - Vyacheslav (Slava) Klimov (1945–2017)
T2 - A scientist par excellence, a great human being, a friend, and a Renaissance man
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman
AU - Zharmukhamedov, Sergey K.
AU - Rodionova, Margarita V.
AU - Shuvalov, Vladimir A.
AU - Dismukes, Charles
AU - Shen, Jian Ren
AU - Barber, James
AU - Samuelsson, Göran
AU - Govindjee,
N1 - Funding Information:
To begin with, we express our heartfelt gratitude to Larisa Klimova, wife of Slava Klimov, for her wonderful ?Reminescence? of Slava, and for providing us many wonderful photographs?without which this Tribute would have been incomplete. Further, we thank Ivan Proskuryakov for providing us the English translation of the text of Larisa Klimova (in Russian), for reading the entire text, and for making several corrections. We are highly thankful to Tatyana Savchenko, Johannes Messinger, and Dmitriy Shevela for their wonderful and detailed Reminiscences. We are also grateful to Andrey Khorobrykh for providing several photographs and for checking this manuscript. Our special thanks go to William W. Adams III for editing this manuscript, and to Barbara Demmig-Adams for accepting this manuscript and for her wonderful comments on this tribute. This manuscript was edited by William W. Adams III for language, and then edited and approved for publication, by Barbara Demmig-Adams, in Photosynthesis Research. She added ?This tribute celebrates the contributions of Vyacheslav Vasilevich Klimov, an outstanding scientist who was also a generous mentor and dear friend to many. He embodied the synergy between the passion for life itself and for the pursuit of knowledge to make the world a better place?.
Funding Information:
When I heard from Suleyman Allakhverdiev that Slava Klimov had passed away, I could not help shouting “Oh No”. Slava was a close friend; he had worked in my lab at Imperial College several times. In fact, I was awarded a grant from the Royal Society of London to support our collaboration and to cover his travel and stay expenses in London. He always came with a colleague from his Institute in Pushchino, and several times with Vladimir (Vlad) Shuvalov. Slava was a “country boy”, and on the weekends he would come to our country cottage in West Sussex and help me with my chores. He was exceptionally brilliant at splitting logs with an axe and experienced at growing vegetables. When I was in Pushchino, Russia, in 2016, he and I spent some time together at the conference party discussing the best way to grow cucumbers, at which he was very successful compared with my efforts. One year he sent me some seeds of the type he had used, but without his magic, I failed miserably. In addition, he was a world-renowned dedicated experimental scientist and it was he, who, with colleagues, discovered in 1977 that pheophytin is the primary electron acceptor of photosystem II (Klevanik et al. 1977; Klimov
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Vyacheslav Vasilevich (V.V.) Klimov (or Slava, as most of us called him) was born on January 12, 1945 and passed away on May 9, 2017. He began his scientific career at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Akademy Nauk (AN) SSSR), Moscow, Russia, and then, he was associated with the Institute of Photosynthesis, Pushchino, Moscow Region, for about 50 years. He worked in the field of biochemistry and biophysics of photosynthesis. He is known for his studies on the molecular organization of photosystem II (PSII). He was an eminent scientist in the field of photobiology, a well-respected professor, and, above all, an outstanding researcher. Further, he was one of the founding members of the Institute of Photosynthesis in Pushchino, Russia. To most, Slava Klimov was a great human being. He was one of the pioneers of research on the understanding of the mechanism of light energy conversion and of water oxidation in photosynthesis. Slava had many collaborations all over the world, and he is (and will be) very much missed by the scientific community and friends in Russia as well as around the World. We present here a brief biography and some comments on his research in photosynthesis. We remember him as a friendly and enthusiastic person who had an unflagging curiosity and energy to conduct outstanding research in many aspects of photosynthesis, especially that related to PSII.
AB - Vyacheslav Vasilevich (V.V.) Klimov (or Slava, as most of us called him) was born on January 12, 1945 and passed away on May 9, 2017. He began his scientific career at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Akademy Nauk (AN) SSSR), Moscow, Russia, and then, he was associated with the Institute of Photosynthesis, Pushchino, Moscow Region, for about 50 years. He worked in the field of biochemistry and biophysics of photosynthesis. He is known for his studies on the molecular organization of photosystem II (PSII). He was an eminent scientist in the field of photobiology, a well-respected professor, and, above all, an outstanding researcher. Further, he was one of the founding members of the Institute of Photosynthesis in Pushchino, Russia. To most, Slava Klimov was a great human being. He was one of the pioneers of research on the understanding of the mechanism of light energy conversion and of water oxidation in photosynthesis. Slava had many collaborations all over the world, and he is (and will be) very much missed by the scientific community and friends in Russia as well as around the World. We present here a brief biography and some comments on his research in photosynthesis. We remember him as a friendly and enthusiastic person who had an unflagging curiosity and energy to conduct outstanding research in many aspects of photosynthesis, especially that related to PSII.
KW - Bicarbonate
KW - Biochemistry and biophysics of photosynthesis
KW - Carbonic anhydrase
KW - P680
KW - Pheophytin
KW - Photosystem II
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029582798&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85029582798&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11120-017-0440-5
DO - 10.1007/s11120-017-0440-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 28921410
AN - SCOPUS:85029582798
VL - 136
JO - Photosynthesis Research
JF - Photosynthesis Research
SN - 0166-8595
IS - 1
ER -