Posted by Jennie Visitacion on February 11, 2016

Oleg Jardetzky, PhD and CSB Professor Emeritus was a pioneer in the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to understand the structure and dynamics of proteins, died Jan. 10 at his Stanford home after a period of declining health. He was 86.

In 1969 he joined the Stanford faculty as a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and which he renamed to the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology in 2006.

Jardetzky retired and closed his Stanford laboratory in 2006 but continued to attend seminars and departmental functions for several more years. He also continued to publish, mostly historical articles, on the early history of NMR and on the Russian emigration due to the revolution of 1917.

His wife, Erika, died in 2008. In addition to Ted, he is survived by sons Alexander Jardetzky and Paul Jardetzky, four grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.

Memorial donations in memory of Jardetzky may be made to Macalester College (the Engel-Morgan-Jardetzky Distinguished Lecture on Science, Culture and Ethics), Davis and Elkins College (Tatiana Jardetzky Scholarship for Foreign Languages and Cultures), or the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University (the W.S. Jardetzky Lecture).

For complete story, please read  the Stanford News Report: Oleg Jardetzky, pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, dies at 86.