On Thursday last week I drove to my Synagogue. On the way there I cross a very busy intersection. At the lights, there was a yellow board you see a lot on London. It said “19th October, Fatal accident, phone – number – if you have any information”. My thought was poor soul, who ever it was that died. Then thought no more of it. What an irony. This weekend, I go to hear that the person who did die in that accident, was someone I knew, and knew quite well.
Judit Nagy a very good scientist at Imperial College. I knew her from the days that she was still a student. I and other people at the Ludwig Institute taught her proteomics, and these techniques she improved so much more later on. As a scientist she was very good, as so many articles state. But she was so much more than that. She was one of the nicest people I had the opportunity to know. Always smiling and always full of humour. And even though we haven’t been in touch for a couple of years, I was just thinking I should e-mail her to meet up for lunch, considering I now work so much closer…wish I had done it a bit earlier.
She also leaves behind a husband and four children. My thoughts go out to them.
