Rejected posting to [e-mail]

[Stefan W. Hell]

*****
To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
*****

Sudipta,

Jan Wichmann was a lab intern who spent about 2-3 weeks with me in
Turku, Finland doing numerical evaluations of STED, after completing his
Diploma (Master's equivalent) work and before starting his PhD work in
Jurgen Wolfrum's lab in Heidelberg.  I met him in Heidelberg in early
summer 1993, in fact on a birthday party of my then-girlfriend. He was
the new boyfriend of a classmate of her at Heidelberg Medical School.
Since my postdoctoral fellowship in Heidelberg had just expired, I was
preparing my leaving to Turku, Finland for a new postdoctoral
fellowship. He expressed interest in visiting me at this 'exotic Finnish
place' as an intern, after having completed his Diploma work.
So he came to Turku in early December 1993, I disclosed the idea of STED
to him, which I had earlier, and asked him to perform numerical
simulations, with particular attention on the duration of the pulses and
that of the vibrational decay. The stay was too short for doing any
experimental work.
I also remember that I asked him whether he would be interested in
continuing in Turku, but he opted for Prof. Wolfrum's lab. This was very
understandable, since Prof. Wolfrum had offered a well-funded PhD
position in his very successful lab in Heidelberg, where Jan had just
begun a new relationship. I was a struggling postdoc, without own lab or
funding, and far away.
In any case, in the following year he was confronted with health issues,
as far as I recall after a trip to Morocco, which made it difficult for
him to get his experimental PhD work started in the Wolfrum laboratory,
although he was a first-rate student. I also remember that later on
Prof. Wolfrum allowed him to do some work at home, and that he
generously continued to pay his salary for almost a year. The fact that
Jan Wichmann did not complete his PhD has nothing to do with STED.
Likewise, I can hardly imagine that he was unhappy with the Wolfrum
laboratory.

Stefan


On 12-Nov-11 11:42, Sudipta Maiti wrote:

> *****
> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
> *****
>
> According to Prof. Jurgen Wolfrum, Wichmann's Ph.D. advisor and currently a
> visitor here, Wichmann left science without finishing his Ph.D. for personal
> reasons. He had taken a leave for a few months during his Ph.D. period to
> pursue the STED idea with Stefan Hell.
> Sudipta
>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:49:36 +1100, Guy Cox wrote
>> *****
>> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
>> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
>> *****
>>
>> I was doing a bit of historical research today and I looked up Jan
>> Wichmann, of the historic first paper on STED (Hell&  Wichmann, 1994,
>> Optics Letters 19: 780-782).  To my surprise the Scopus database showed
>> just one paper for Wichmann - that one, with more than 500 citations.
>> This must be a pretty rare situation.  Does anyone know who Wichmann
>> (from Turku in Finland) was and what became of him?
>>
>> Guy
>>
>> Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology
>> by Guy Cox    CRC Press / Taylor&  Francis
>>       http://www.guycox.com/optical.htm
>> ______________________________________________
>> Associate Professor Guy Cox, MA, DPhil(Oxon)
>> Australian Centre for Microscopy&  Microanalysis,
>> Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
>>
>> Phone [phone]     Fax [phone]
>>               Mobile [phone]
>> ______________________________________________
>>        http://www.guycox.net
>
> Dr. Sudipta Maiti
> Dept. of Chemical Sciences
> Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
> Homi Bhabha Raod, Colaba, Mumbai 400005
> Ph. 91-22-2278-2716 / 2539
> Fax: [phone]
> alternate e-mail: [hidden email]
> url: biophotonics.weebly.com

[Guy Cox-2]

*****
To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
*****

Let's be quite clear that there was never any implication in my original
query that working on STED, or working with Stefan, had driven Wichmann
out of science!  :)  

                                  Guy

Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology
by Guy Cox    CRC Press / Taylor & Francis
     http://www.guycox.com/optical.htm
______________________________________________
Associate Professor Guy Cox, MA, DPhil(Oxon)
Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis,
Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney, NSW 2006

Phone [phone]     Fax [phone]
             Mobile [phone]
______________________________________________
      http://www.guycox.net
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]]
On Behalf Of Stefan W. Hell
Sent: Monday, 14 November 2011 12:58 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Historical question - Jan Wichmann

*****
To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
*****

Sudipta,

Jan Wichmann was a lab intern who spent about 2-3 weeks with me in
Turku, Finland doing numerical evaluations of STED, after completing his

Diploma (Master's equivalent) work and before starting his PhD work in
Jurgen Wolfrum's lab in Heidelberg.  I met him in Heidelberg in early
summer 1993, in fact on a birthday party of my then-girlfriend. He was
the new boyfriend of a classmate of her at Heidelberg Medical School.
Since my postdoctoral fellowship in Heidelberg had just expired, I was
preparing my leaving to Turku, Finland for a new postdoctoral
fellowship. He expressed interest in visiting me at this 'exotic Finnish

place' as an intern, after having completed his Diploma work.
So he came to Turku in early December 1993, I disclosed the idea of STED

to him, which I had earlier, and asked him to perform numerical
simulations, with particular attention on the duration of the pulses and

that of the vibrational decay. The stay was too short for doing any
experimental work.
I also remember that I asked him whether he would be interested in
continuing in Turku, but he opted for Prof. Wolfrum's lab. This was very

understandable, since Prof. Wolfrum had offered a well-funded PhD
position in his very successful lab in Heidelberg, where Jan had just
begun a new relationship. I was a struggling postdoc, without own lab or

funding, and far away.
In any case, in the following year he was confronted with health issues,

as far as I recall after a trip to Morocco, which made it difficult for
him to get his experimental PhD work started in the Wolfrum laboratory,
although he was a first-rate student. I also remember that later on
Prof. Wolfrum allowed him to do some work at home, and that he
generously continued to pay his salary for almost a year. The fact that
Jan Wichmann did not complete his PhD has nothing to do with STED.
Likewise, I can hardly imagine that he was unhappy with the Wolfrum
laboratory.

Stefan


On 12-Nov-11 11:42, Sudipta Maiti wrote:
> *****
> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
> *****
>
> According to Prof. Jurgen Wolfrum, Wichmann's Ph.D. advisor and
currently a
> visitor here, Wichmann left science without finishing his Ph.D. for
personal
> reasons. He had taken a leave for a few months during his Ph.D. period
to

> pursue the STED idea with Stefan Hell.
> Sudipta
>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:49:36 +1100, Guy Cox wrote
>> *****
>> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
>> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
>> *****
>>
>> I was doing a bit of historical research today and I looked up Jan
>> Wichmann, of the historic first paper on STED (Hell&  Wichmann, 1994,
>> Optics Letters 19: 780-782).  To my surprise the Scopus database

showed

>> just one paper for Wichmann - that one, with more than 500 citations.
>> This must be a pretty rare situation.  Does anyone know who Wichmann
>> (from Turku in Finland) was and what became of him?
>>
>> Guy
>>
>> Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology
>> by Guy Cox    CRC Press / Taylor&  Francis
>>       http://www.guycox.com/optical.htm
>> ______________________________________________
>> Associate Professor Guy Cox, MA, DPhil(Oxon)
>> Australian Centre for Microscopy&  Microanalysis,
>> Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
>>
>> Phone [phone]     Fax [phone]
>>               Mobile [phone]
>> ______________________________________________
>>        http://www.guycox.net
>
> Dr. Sudipta Maiti
> Dept. of Chemical Sciences
> Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
> Homi Bhabha Raod, Colaba, Mumbai 400005
> Ph. 91-22-2278-2716 / 2539
> Fax: [phone]
> alternate e-mail: [hidden email]
> url: biophotonics.weebly.com

-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4614 - Release Date:
11/13/11