Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Jean-Claude Bradley, Blue Obelisk award winner of 2007
Does anyone know of any suggested memorials and/or charities for donations in his memory? -- /**/ Daniel Zaharevitz Chief, ITB, DTP, DCTD National Cancer Institute zahar...@mail.nih.gov /**/ From: Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.ukmailto:pm...@cam.ac.uk Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:21 AM To: Egon Willighagen egon.willigha...@gmail.commailto:egon.willigha...@gmail.com Cc: BlueObelisk-Discuss blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Jean-Claude Bradley, Blue Obelisk award winner of 2007 I echo Egon's sadness. Jean-Claude was years ahead of his time. He did what he considered right, not what was expedient or what the world expected. He and I discussed Open Data and Open Notebook Science. We found that they were different things and that each was a critically important subject. J-C set up a webpage on Wikipedia to describe ONS and its practice. ONS is truly innovative. The research must be available to everyone - regardless of who they are are or what they had studied. And it must be fair - no insider knowledge. Several groups in chemistry are following J-C's lead - and we honour him in that. I have been invited to present a keynote on Open Data at Hinxton Genome Campus tomorrow and shall make J-C's work the focus and inspiration. I am truly glad we awarded him a Blue Obelisk. As a community we should think how to take the message further. P. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Egon Willighagen egon.willigha...@gmail.commailto:egon.willigha...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Blue Obelisk community, with great sadness it is that I heard yesterday that Jean-Claude Bradley passed away yesterday. Please read below more information from Drexel University below. Jean-Claude received the Blue Obelisk award in 2007. I have know Jean-Claude for some years and did some work together with him on Open Data in chemistry. I was looking forward to working with him, as member of the SAB of eNanoMapper, on the publisher perspective of nanosafety research, in his role of Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Central Journal, with the innovative BioMed Central/Chemistry Central publisher. Egon “Dear Members of the Drexel University Community, It is with deep sadness that I inform you of the passing of Jean-Claude Bradley, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry. Jean-Claude joined Drexel as an assistant professor in 1996 after receiving his PhD in organic chemistry and serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University and College de France in Paris. In 2004, he was appointed E-Learning Coordinator for Drexel's College of Arts and Sciences, helping to spearhead the adoption of novel teaching modalities. In that role, he led the University's initiative to buy an island in the virtual world of Second Life, where students and faculty could explore new methods of teaching and learning. Jean-Claude was most well known for his Open Notebook Science(ONS), a term he coined to describe his novel approach to making all primary research (including both successful and failed experiments) open to the public in real time. ONS, he believed—and demonstrated—could significantly impact the future of science by reducing financial and computational restraints and by granting public access to the raw data that shapes scientific conclusions. ...In the past, trusting people might have been a necessary evil [of research], Bradley said. Today, it is a choice. Optimally, trust should have no place in science. In June of 2013, Jean-Claude was invited to the White House for an Open Science Poster Session, at which he discussed ONS' role in allowing he and his collaborators to confidently determine the melting points of over 27,000 substances, including many that were never before agreed upon. Currently, his research lab had been working to create anti-malarial compounds to aid in the synthesis of drugs to fight malaria. His lab's work on this project was made available to the public on a wiki called UsefulChem, which Jean-Claude started in 2005. Jean-Claude's philosophy of free, accessible science translated to an open approach in the classroom as well. Content from his undergraduate chemistry courses was made freely available to the public, and real data from the laboratory was used in assignments to practice concepts learned in the classroom. In an article in Chemistry World last April, Bradley said: It is only a matter of time before the internet is saturated with free knowledge for all…People will remember those who were first. Indeed, we will remember Jean-Claude as a pioneer in the open access movement, an innovative researcher and colleague, and a kind and dedicated educator. His death impacts all who knew him, and especially the students, faculty and collaborators who worked with him daily. For anyone who may need support in dealing with this loss, we encourage you
[BlueObelisk-discuss] Jean-Claude Bradley, Blue Obelisk award winner of 2007
Dear Blue Obelisk community, with great sadness it is that I heard yesterday that Jean-Claude Bradley passed away yesterday. Please read below more information from Drexel University below. Jean-Claude received the Blue Obelisk award in 2007. I have know Jean-Claude for some years and did some work together with him on Open Data in chemistry. I was looking forward to working with him, as member of the SAB of eNanoMapper, on the publisher perspective of nanosafety research, in his role of Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Central Journal, with the innovative BioMed Central/Chemistry Central publisher. Egon “Dear Members of the Drexel University Community, It is with deep sadness that I inform you of the passing of Jean-Claude Bradley, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry. Jean-Claude joined Drexel as an assistant professor in 1996 after receiving his PhD in organic chemistry and serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University and College de France in Paris. In 2004, he was appointed E-Learning Coordinator for Drexel's College of Arts and Sciences, helping to spearhead the adoption of novel teaching modalities. In that role, he led the University's initiative to buy an island in the virtual world of Second Life, where students and faculty could explore new methods of teaching and learning. Jean-Claude was most well known for his Open Notebook Science(ONS), a term he coined to describe his novel approach to making all primary research (including both successful and failed experiments) open to the public in real time. ONS, he believed—and demonstrated—could significantly impact the future of science by reducing financial and computational restraints and by granting public access to the raw data that shapes scientific conclusions. ...In the past, trusting people might have been a necessary evil [of research], Bradley said. Today, it is a choice. Optimally, trust should have no place in science. In June of 2013, Jean-Claude was invited to the White House for an Open Science Poster Session, at which he discussed ONS' role in allowing he and his collaborators to confidently determine the melting points of over 27,000 substances, including many that were never before agreed upon. Currently, his research lab had been working to create anti-malarial compounds to aid in the synthesis of drugs to fight malaria. His lab's work on this project was made available to the public on a wiki called UsefulChem, which Jean-Claude started in 2005. Jean-Claude's philosophy of free, accessible science translated to an open approach in the classroom as well. Content from his undergraduate chemistry courses was made freely available to the public, and real data from the laboratory was used in assignments to practice concepts learned in the classroom. In an article in Chemistry World last April, Bradley said: It is only a matter of time before the internet is saturated with free knowledge for all…People will remember those who were first. Indeed, we will remember Jean-Claude as a pioneer in the open access movement, an innovative researcher and colleague, and a kind and dedicated educator. His death impacts all who knew him, and especially the students, faculty and collaborators who worked with him daily. For anyone who may need support in dealing with this loss, we encourage you to reach out to the counseling professionals at Drexel's Counseling Center at 215-895-1415 (or 215-416-3337 after regular business hours). Our thoughts are with Jean-Claude's family and friends at this difficult time. Sincerely, Donna M. Murasko, PhD Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences” -- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ORCID: -0001-7542-0286 -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Jean-Claude Bradley, Blue Obelisk award winner of 2007
Sad news indeed... On 2014-05-14 16:33, Egon Willighagen wrote: Dear Blue Obelisk community, with great sadness it is that I heard yesterday that Jean-Claude Bradley passed away yesterday. Please read below more information from Drexel University below. Jean-Claude received the Blue Obelisk award in 2007. I have know Jean-Claude for some years and did some work together with him on Open Data in chemistry. I was looking forward to working with him, as member of the SAB of eNanoMapper, on the publisher perspective of nanosafety research, in his role of Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Central Journal, with the innovative BioMed Central/Chemistry Central publisher. Egon -- Dr. Saulius Gražulis Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Graiciuno 8 LT-02241 Vilnius, Lietuva (Lithuania) fax: (+370-5)-2602116 / phone (office): (+370-5)-2602556 mobile: (+370-684)-49802, (+370-614)-36366 -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Jean-Claude Bradley, Blue Obelisk award winner of 2007
Ugh. I'm speechless. Very sad news. -Geoff --- Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh tel: (412) 648-0492 email: geo...@pitt.edu web: http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/ -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Jean-Claude Bradley, Blue Obelisk award winner of 2007
I echo Egon's sadness. Jean-Claude was years ahead of his time. He did what he considered right, not what was expedient or what the world expected. He and I discussed Open Data and Open Notebook Science. We found that they were different things and that each was a critically important subject. J-C set up a webpage on Wikipedia to describe ONS and its practice. ONS is truly innovative. The research must be available to everyone - regardless of who they are are or what they had studied. And it must be fair - no insider knowledge. Several groups in chemistry are following J-C's lead - and we honour him in that. I have been invited to present a keynote on Open Data at Hinxton Genome Campus tomorrow and shall make J-C's work the focus and inspiration. I am truly glad we awarded him a Blue Obelisk. As a community we should think how to take the message further. P. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Egon Willighagen egon.willigha...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Blue Obelisk community, with great sadness it is that I heard yesterday that Jean-Claude Bradley passed away yesterday. Please read below more information from Drexel University below. Jean-Claude received the Blue Obelisk award in 2007. I have know Jean-Claude for some years and did some work together with him on Open Data in chemistry. I was looking forward to working with him, as member of the SAB of eNanoMapper, on the publisher perspective of nanosafety research, in his role of Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Central Journal, with the innovative BioMed Central/Chemistry Central publisher. Egon “Dear Members of the Drexel University Community, It is with deep sadness that I inform you of the passing of Jean-Claude Bradley, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry. Jean-Claude joined Drexel as an assistant professor in 1996 after receiving his PhD in organic chemistry and serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University and College de France in Paris. In 2004, he was appointed E-Learning Coordinator for Drexel's College of Arts and Sciences, helping to spearhead the adoption of novel teaching modalities. In that role, he led the University's initiative to buy an island in the virtual world of Second Life, where students and faculty could explore new methods of teaching and learning. Jean-Claude was most well known for his Open Notebook Science(ONS), a term he coined to describe his novel approach to making all primary research (including both successful and failed experiments) open to the public in real time. ONS, he believed—and demonstrated—could significantly impact the future of science by reducing financial and computational restraints and by granting public access to the raw data that shapes scientific conclusions. ...In the past, trusting people might have been a necessary evil [of research], Bradley said. Today, it is a choice. Optimally, trust should have no place in science. In June of 2013, Jean-Claude was invited to the White House for an Open Science Poster Session, at which he discussed ONS' role in allowing he and his collaborators to confidently determine the melting points of over 27,000 substances, including many that were never before agreed upon. Currently, his research lab had been working to create anti-malarial compounds to aid in the synthesis of drugs to fight malaria. His lab's work on this project was made available to the public on a wiki called UsefulChem, which Jean-Claude started in 2005. Jean-Claude's philosophy of free, accessible science translated to an open approach in the classroom as well. Content from his undergraduate chemistry courses was made freely available to the public, and real data from the laboratory was used in assignments to practice concepts learned in the classroom. In an article in Chemistry World last April, Bradley said: It is only a matter of time before the internet is saturated with free knowledge for all…People will remember those who were first. Indeed, we will remember Jean-Claude as a pioneer in the open access movement, an innovative researcher and colleague, and a kind and dedicated educator. His death impacts all who knew him, and especially the students, faculty and collaborators who worked with him daily. For anyone who may need support in dealing with this loss, we encourage you to reach out to the counseling professionals at Drexel's Counseling Center at 215-895-1415 (or 215-416-3337 after regular business hours). Our thoughts are with Jean-Claude's family and friends at this difficult time. Sincerely, Donna M. Murasko, PhD Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences” -- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ORCID: -0001-7542-0286
