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Remembering the beach party at the 2008 UBC course, our class did skits and the like. I dug out the words of a song that our group wrote and performed. Given the era Jim went to college in, it seemed appropriate. Jim had a big grin on his face.
IMAGINE (re-imagined)
With apologies to John Lennon
Imagine no spherical aberration
It's easy if you try
We'd be imaging deeper
Crisp images every time
Imagine all the science
We could do today...
Imagine there's no poisson
It's not hard to do
We'd have images to die for
Accurate photon counts too
Imagine all the people
Living in their labs
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday there'll be a detector
With an efficiency approaching one
Imaging brighter fluor dyes
I wonder if you can
No worries of photobleaching
Lasting from beginning to the end
Imaging all the structures
We could show the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
'Cause microscopists have all the fun!
Thanks Jim.
Doug
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Sad news indeed!
I was a participant in the Second Annual Course on 3D Microscopy of Living Cell, in Vancouver BC in 1997. I had just installed my first confocal microscope, a Noran Oz, and knew next to nothing about fluorescence microscopy, having been an electron microscopist. The course was extraordinary in its scope and was also fun. For a social event, Jim and his crew took the participants to a cook out on the beach and as an exercise he told us to break out into small groups, and, using only debris we could find on the beach, “build a microscope”. Each group had to explain what purpose each bit of driftwood and other detritus we used in constructing our “microscope” served. I will always remember that course as it was the underpinning of my long career in light microscopy. I was always enlightened by Jim’s “two cents” as he weighed in on the Confocal Listserv.
He will be missed.
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Hi Steve,
Thanks very much for sharing this very sad news about Jim. I attended the UBC 3D Live Cell Course in 2009 and it was an incredibly valuable experience. I am very grateful to Jim for organising this course.
It's a very difficult time for his family especially given his sudden death however I hope they can take some comfort from the thoughts of friends and colleagues as well as others like me who have greatly benefited from his efforts. As I'm looking up at my bookshelf, I see my personal copy of the 3rd edition of the Handbook on the shelf. I remember being a bit startled by the size of it knowing that I had to bring it back to New Zealand... Did I have to pay excess luggage?...Yes! But I was given a very nice bag to bring it back in as I had travelled the greatest distance to be there.
I've continued to learn from Jim over the years, reading his responses to questions on this listserv. He will be very much missed.
Kind regards,
Jacqui
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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world. The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (
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[hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association:
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Stephen H. Cody
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