Abstract
This volume of Photosynthesis Research is the second part of a two volume Special Issue to celebrate the contributions of Govindjee to photosynthesis and to the photosynthesis community––spanning over 50 years of research, teaching and service. Govindjee obtained an MSc in Botany from Allahabad University, India, in 1954, and then went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1956 where he did his doctoral studies under Professors Robert Emerson and Eugene Rabinowitch (Fig. 1). After receiving his PhD in Biophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1960, he joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1961 and maintained a thriving research laboratory until his retirement in 1999 (Eaton-Rye 2007). Below is a collection of recollections from some of the many students and collaborators who passed through Govindjee’s lab. Govindjee returned to Urbana in 1961, after a short visit to India, following a US Public Health Service Postdoctoral Traineeship. The first PhD student supervised by Govindjee was Carl N. Cederstrand (PhD in Biophysics, 1965); this, he did jointly with Eugene Rabinowitch. Carl had in fact known Govindjee from his arrival at UIUC and provided the following memory of that time:
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