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We honor Jean-David Rochaix, an outstanding scholar of chloroplast biogenesis and photosynthesis, who received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research at its 17th International Photosynthesis Congress held in Maastricht, The Netherlands (August 5–12, 2016). With this award he joins other major discoverers in the field of photosynthesis: Pierre Joliot (of France, 2013); Ulrich W. Heber* (of Germany, 2010) and Kenneth Sauer (of USA, 2010); Jan M. Anderson* (of Australia, 2007); and Horst T. Witt* (of Germany, 2004). See “Appendix 1” for the list of those who have received the ISPR Communication, Innovation, Calvin–Benson, and Hill awards.

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Acknowledgments

We thank A. William (Bill) Rutherford for providing us the necessary information on behalf of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR) regarding Jean-David Rochaix. We are grateful to Steven (Steve) C. Huber, and John Golbeck for reading and approving the publication of this Tribute. We also thank Rahul Ukey, of UIUC, for his help in editing the photograph shown in Fig. 1.

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  1. Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

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  2. School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, 1711 S Rural Rd, Box 871604, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1604, USA

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*Ulrich Wolfgang Heber (October 25, 1930–June 12, 2016); Joan (Jan) Mary Anderson (13 May 13, 1932–August 28, 2015); Horst Tobias Witt (March 1, 1922–May 14, 2007).

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Appendices

Appendix 1: The other ISPR awardees (2004–2016)

Prepared from information on the ISPR web site (http://www.photosynthesisresearch.org/page-1853064).

International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR) Prize Winners, excluding student awards, are listed below.

Lifetime achievement award

2016: Jean-David Rochaix (Switzerland); 2013: Pierre Joliot (France); 2010: Ulrich Heber (Germany) and Kenneth Sauer (USA); 2007: Jan Anderson (Australia); 2004: Horst Witt (Germany).

Communications award

2016: James Barber (UK); 2013: Robert Blankenship (USA); 2010: Oliver Morton (UK); 2007: Govindjee (USA); 2004: David Walker (UK).

Innovation prize

2016: David Kramer (USA); 2013: Stephen Long (USA); 2010: Agu Laisk and Vello Oja (Estonia); 2007: Ulrich Schreiber (Germany).

Melvin Calvin-Andrew Benson award

2016: Andrew Leaky (USA); 2013: Xinguang Zhu (China); 2010: Carl Bernacchi(USA); 2007: Julian Hibberd (UK); 2004: Klaas van Wijk (USA).

Robin Hill award

2016: Nicholas Cox (Australia); 2013: Min Chen (Australia); 2010: Tomas Morosinotto (Italy); 2007: Warwick Hillier (Australia) and Junko Yano (USA); 2004: Kevin Redding (USA).

Appendix 2: Key collaborators of Jean-David Rochaix

An alphabetical list of key collaborators of Jean-David over the years have been (for ease in searching names, we have bolded the alphabets of the last names, only at their first appearance):

Bruno Amati, Andrea Auchincloss, Frédy Barneche, Roberto Bassi, Stéphane Bellafiore, Pierre Bennoun, Eric Boudreau, Mauro Ceol, Yves Choquet, Michèle Crévecoeur, David Dauvillée, Anil Day, Robert Debuchy, Christian Delessert, Nathalie Depège, Emine Dinc, Michel Dron, Franz Dürrenberger, Oliver Ebenhöh, Lutz Eichacker, Jeanne Erickson, Angela Falciatore, Nicolas Fischer, Mark Fleischmann, Lars Gunnar Franzén, Geoffrey Fucile, Vera Göhre, Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, Augustin Guardiola, Mounia Heddad, Muriel Herz, Michael Hippler, Bruce Kohorn, Michael Kuchka, Pierre Künstner, Fabrice Laroche, Linnka Levebvre-Legendre, Stéphane Lemaire, Sylvain Lemeille, Stéphane Lobréaux, Vanya Loroch, Pia Malnoe, Yves Marco, Stephen Mayfield, Livia Merendino, Stéphane Miras, Caroline Monod, Helle Naver, Jörg Nickelsen, Karl Perron, Saul Purton, Michèle Rahire, Silvia Ramundo, Stéphane Ravanel, Kevin Redding, Christian Rivier, Norbert Rolland, Michel Schneider, Alexey Shapiguzov, Su-Yin Soen, Robert Spreitzer, Otello Stampacchia, Raymond Surzycki, Stefan Surzycki, Yuichiro Takahashi, Fabian Vaistij, Jean-Marie Vallet, Jeannette van Dillewijn, Donald Weeks, Adrian Willig, Veronika Winter, Jean-Luc Zanasco, and William Zerges.

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Govindjee, Redding, K. Honoring Jean-David Rochaix. Photosynth Res 131, 221–225 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-016-0308-0

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