Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge

illiance and his time to help someone else, a stranger, to see a way through
a problem was typical of Peter.Typical too was the way he would talk about it
– always delighted by the exchanges.
Peter, more than most, lived his life as a whole according to principles he had
thought out and cared about. There is a concept in Jewish philosophy called
tikkun olam: the world is fragmented, riven, but a good person can by his
actions work to heal the whole. By living his life as a whole, Peter Lipton
worked towards the end of tikkun olam. Peter achieved much, but the awfulness
of his early death is still felt as an irreparable rip in the fabric of many people’s
lives. He died on 25 November 2007.
DAME ANNE LAURA DORINTHEA MCLAREN (1992)
On 6 July 2007, Anne McLaren spent
a busy day at the Gurdon Institute in
Cambridge, where she had worked
since 1992. She prepared a talk for a
meeting in Germany and answered a
large number of emails. In the
afternoon, she attended a group
leaders’ meeting, as always paying
close attention and ready to offer
sensible advice. Towards the end of
the day, she chatted with colleagues
and asked questions about some
recent stem-cell publications. She
left promising to continue the discussion. Sadly, this was to be her last
working day.
Anne had an extraordinary life, both personally and professionally. Born on 26
April 1927, she was the daughter of industrialist Henry McLaren, Second
Baron Aberconway, and his wife Christabel McNaughten. In 1945 she
embarked on the study of Zoology at the University of Oxford, because for
her this was an easier option than reading English, for which the entrance
examination required too much reading in too little time. She completed her
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