Leigh Van Valen Obit in The New York Times
If you haven’t, check out the Leigh Van Valen obituary in The New York Times. I hadn’t been aware of the breadth of his work, and the disciplinary range he showed over his career.
Leigh Van Valen, 1935-2010
John Hawks is reporting that Leigh Van Valen passed away this weekend. I had the pleasure and honor of Leigh Van Valen being an occasional reader of my musings. He would leave comments as “leigh.” Here’s one which he left in February 2008:
Goldschmidt did a great deal more than hopeless monsters. I was with Dobzhansky […]