Abstract
It is with great sorrow that we write about the demise of Leo Sachs, the Otto Meyerhof Professor of Molecular Biology, friend, colleague and brilliant scientist. Leo was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1924, emigrated with his family from Nazi Germany to England in 1933, and reached Israel in 1952. He began studying agricultural botany at the University of Wales, became fascinated by genetics and development, and ended up completing a doctorate in genetics in 1951 at Cambridge University. Upon arrival in Israel, he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science as a geneticist. One of us (M.S.) was already at the Institute and remembers well the arrival of this impressive gentleman with a huge height, deep conviction, and a blessed capacity to express himself clearly on the subject of his deep scientific interests. The questions that would anchor Leo’s research throughout: What controls normal development and what happens when development goes wrong? Why does the machinery in cancer cells run amok, causing abnormal proliferation?
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