Dr. Hubert Klus, Recipient of the 2019 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

It is my distinct pleasure to make this presentation of the TSRC Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr Bill Collins from NC State University. Bill is well known in academic and industry circles for his contributions to Tobacco Science. Some have suggested that Bill Collins is the single person most identified with flue-cured tobacco at NC State and probably world-wide.

Richard Baker died at Easter 2007 after a very short illness. It is sad that he died so soon after his retirement from the British American Tobacco Company at the end of 2005, and just as he was beginning to enjoy his new life, even though tobacco science still had a part to play. In 2006 Richard received the Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award, and at this time Thomas Perfetti, in this journal, described his distinguished scientific career in some detail. I will not repeat the list of these remarkable achievements, but can only add that he may well be the only scientist ever to be awarded the ultimate research degree, a D. Sc., by a British University for research activities while working for a tobacco company. Bearing in mind anti-tobacco sentiment this was a breath-taking achievement. Richard joined B.A.T. in 1971 and came to live quite near us on the outskirts of Southampton. We got to know Richard and Jackie well. Being a few years older several of the younger Thornton's then acted as baby-sitters as the younger Baker's appeared on the scene. Richard's enthusiasm for jogging and long-distance running was well known. As he jogged by the entrance to my house on foggy mornings he became a well-known health hazard, both to himself and to me. Richard's interests also included local politics and schools and indicated his great interest in people and their well-being. He was a kind and thoughtful colleague. When we moved house in 1976 Richard and Jackie sent us a good luck card, repeated in 1994 when we moved, briefly and spectacularly, to New Delhi. Richard's last years were evidently as full as ever, and he was still publishing scientific papers in his role as a Consultant. He was close to his family and children. Grandchildren, of whom he was very fond, had arrived. Richard and Jackie had also acquired a holiday home in their beloved Lake District in N.W. England. I, and everyone who met him, will have fond recollections of Richard as a delightful person and as an outstanding scientist, and above all we would like Jackie to know how we regarded him.

Tien C. (T.C.) Tso, Recipient of the 2005 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr Michael F. Borgerding, Recipient of the 2015 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

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Professor Emeritus George Wagner, Recipient of the 2016 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr Thomas A. Perfetti, Recipient of the 2017 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

Linda Crumpler, Recipient of the 2024 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

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The unexpected death of Richard Baker at Easter of this year was a shock for all who knew him. It was just in the last Issue of the Journal (Volume 22, No. 4, January 2007) that we as Editors were pleased and proud to print the laudation by Thomas A. Perfetti of Richard Baker who received the 2006 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. In this Issue, we have the sad duty to print an obituary for Richard Baker. We have asked Ray Thornton, a former Scientific and Regulatory Manager at BAT to write the obituary, because Ray was a colleague, neighbour and friend of Richard Baker. BeiträgezurTabakforschung International/Contributions to Tobacco Research has lost one of its most dedicated and productive Advisory Board Member. Richard Baker was member of the Advisory Board since 1994. He has thoroughly reviewed numerous manuscripts submitted to the Journal. He also convinced many authors of tobacco- or smoke- related papers from inside and outside the Tobacco Industry to submit their manuscripts to the Journal. The Advisory Board Members of the Journal will remember his well-founded and also humorous contributions at the yearly or biennial meetings. We, as Editors, want to state: Richard Baker has rendered outstanding services to the Journal, we shall miss him very much.

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Alan Rodgman, M.A., Ph.D., Recipient of the 2003 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. DeWitt T. Gooden III, Recipient of the 2013 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. J. Michael Moore, Recipient of the 2023 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Michael W. Ogden, Recipient of the 2014 Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award