🌻Manfred T. Reetz, an organic chemist of the highest caliber, died of cancer on April 23, 2026. He was born on August 13, 1943, in Lower Silesia, now Poland, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1952.
Manfred Reetz, a giant of organic chemistry, will be dearly missed by his former students and colleagues as well as by the wider scientific community.