1月4日(水)夜に亡くなったWinsconsin大学Madison校の有名で教授も大変お世話になったJim Crow名誉教授のメモアリアル・サービスは、1月15日（日）にCapitol Lakes Retirement Community (333 W. Main St）で執り行われることが決まりました。
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ウイスコンシン大学の遺伝学研究室(Laboratory of Genetics)の名誉教授(Professor Emeritus)であるミラード・サスマン(Millard Susman)教授から東大の青木健一教授へのメールに寄りますと、ウィスコンシン大学のホームページには、以下のような追悼文が掲載されています。合わせて、メモリアル・サービスの日時も明らかになりました。おそらく、教授のこの時期のアメリカ行きは非常に難しく、弔電と献花を御願いすることになるものと思われます。
ウィスコンシン大学のホーペページ（http://www.news.wisc.edu/20193）から引用します。
"The UW-Madison community is mourning the loss of a legend: James F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics, who passed away peacefully at his home on Jan. 4, two weeks shy of his 96th birthday.
Crow was a renowned researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague and administrator during a scientific career that stretched 70 years. An editorial published last month in the journal Genetics, introducing a series of articles in Crow's honor, described him thus: "A gentleman and scholar of the highest order, he represents the best of our field."
Crow was admired and highly honored for his groundbreaking research in the field of population genetics. His work touched nearly every aspect of the field and included mathematical and statistical genetics, inbreeding, genetic effects of radiation, natural variations in populations, sex determination, plant and animal breeding, selfish genes, transposable elements, the impact of mutations on populations, and the genetics of pesticide resistance. In 1970 he co-authored with Motoo Kimura a landmark textbook, "An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory," which laid much of the groundwork for the mathematical basis of population genetics theory and is still considered a classic.
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Charming and social, Crow loved parties and celebrations and befriended professors and students alike. He was also known for his stabilizing influence and was often tapped for his ability to lead diverse groups toward cooperation.
"He always gave credit where credit was due," often helping to further others' careers, says Susman. "He was very generous and very modest."
He is memorialized on campus through the James F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, a cross-campus institute formed in 2009 to unite evolution researchers from multiple departments, schools and colleges.
In a 2000 interview for a genetics history project, former student Daniel Hartl, now a professor at Harvard University, asked Crow what he thought his legacy would be. "If I have a legacy," Crow answered, "part of it is the collaborative work that I've done with other people. But I want to say that part of my legacy is students. I've had an unusually good group of graduate students and postdocs, many of which have gone on to make names for themselves in genetics, and I like to think of that as my real legacy."
A memorial service for Crow is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 15, at 3 p.m. at Capitol Retirement Community, 333 W. Main St., Madison."
(Above is the complete citation of the Obituary posted at the homepage of University of Wisconsin at Madison.)
