{"id":4693,"date":"2015-10-21T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:15:04","slug":"kenneth-koe-45-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2015\/10\/kenneth-koe-45-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Koe &#8217;45, In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/in-memoriam\/assets\/images\/_online-first\/KennethCoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/in-memoriam\/obituaries\/_online_only\/kenneth-koe-1945.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reed Magazine blog<\/a><\/strong> has reported that<strong> Kenneth Koe &#8217;45<\/strong>, one of the principal scientists on the <strong>Zoloft<\/strong> discovery team at Pfizer, passed away at his daughter&#8217;s home earlier this month. He was 90 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I remember meeting Dr. Koe in person in 2008 when he returned to campus to accept the\u00a0<strong>Howard Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology<\/strong>. Although advanced in years, he was intellectually sharp, friendly and curious about the current generation of Reed scientists, and gracious towards all.<\/p>\n<p>It was a privilege to welcome this Portland native who had done so much for so many back to campus and to honor his achievements in this distinctly Reed-like way.\u00a0We have lost a friend and colleague.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Koe&#8217;s<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/convocation\/archive\/2008\/koe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Vollum award acceptance speech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/winter2009\/columns\/alumni_profiles\/breaking_depression.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Breaking Depression&#8217;s Icy Grip,&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> Reed magazine, Winter 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reed Magazine blog has reported that Kenneth Koe &#8217;45, one of the principal scientists on the Zoloft discovery team at Pfizer, passed away at his daughter&#8217;s home earlier this month. He was 90 years old. I remember meeting Dr.&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2015\/10\/kenneth-koe-45-in-memoriam\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Kenneth Koe &#8217;45, In Memoriam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}