A relative of his current caregiver provides this note about emeritus professor Jiri Jonas who is 90:
His wife passed a couple years ago and he never had kids and lives a pretty solitary life.
I know his work has had impact on so many chemists and he accomplished some amazing things, so I'm reaching out to chemists around the world to send letters to an old giant in your field to let him know how much his contribution to the rich vastness of human knowledge has been appreciated. It's really all about letting a lonely old man know that he has not been forgotten by the world he touched.
I just want to collect some letters or maybe postcards even to have my mom hand to him once in a while to read. I'm a sociologist and and economist by graduate training so I have no familiarity with his work, but from what I've been told, his contributions to the literature have been great.
Interested? Send me an email at chemjobber -at- gmail dot com
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