Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2021

InMemoriam

EnochWallace Small III

engaged, and passionate father, Enoch proudly saw his three daughters through their educations and onto successful careers. As husband and life partner to Jeanne, Enoch supported her every career move through academia, business, and government service. Enoch and Jeanne’s personal and professional teamwork extended from the mundane chores of maintaining their home to the joys of international travel and the intellectual pursuits of science and beyond. During Enoch’s life, he pursued creativity far beyond his scientific and business work. He designed and built houses; he built a ca- noe and explored Northwest lakes; he became adept at whitewa- ter kayaking; and he documented the natural world through his photography. His spirit of adventure was pervasive in all aspects of his life, and fully adopted by his family. Enoch, Jeanne, and their daughters pursued boating of all sorts: canoeing when the girls were young, sailing a small boat (“Small Wonder”) as the daughters grew, and finally commanding large boats (“Light Wave” and “Liberty”) in their later years. Enoch was happiest on the waters of the Salish Sea inWashington State and British Columbia, surrounded by the family he loved, exploring islands andmountains, identifying regional flora and fauna, and photographing the exceptional beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Exercising his mind to the fullest, Enoch was an avid reader of all kinds of books and able to recite frommemory the works of poets, fromShel Silverstein to Shakespeare. Classical music was a lifelong passion of his, and playing the piano was his favorite break activity during the day. While Enoch was able to travel the world throughout his lifetime, his true home was Washington State, and there he died from pancreatic cancer in June 2021. He did not “go gentle into that good night,” but he was surrounded by his family and loved deep- ly during his final weeks. Enoch is missed acutely by his family and friends, and broadly across the country and world by the scientific community served by QuantumNorthwest. — Jeanne Rudzki Small

Enoch Wallace Small III (1945–2021) was born December 13, 1945, in Free- port, NY. He grew up in Hewlett, NY, with parents Enoch and Josephine Small and younger brother Wilson Small , enjoying Boy Scouts, football, church choir, summer camps, and boating on local waters. After graduating fromHewlett High School in 1963, he received his bachelor of science degree in biological sciences fromCornell University in 1967, followed by his PhD in biochemistry from the University of

Enoch Wallace Small III

Oregon in 1971. He pursued his passion for biology, biophysics, and optical spectroscopy first as a faculty member at Oregon State University and later at EasternWashington University, and then by founding QuantumNorthwest, Inc. to develop unique and sophisticated instrumentation for the global community of scientists. As a biophysicist, Enoch published 54 scientific articles on topics including Raman spectroscopy, deconvolutionmethods, and rotational diffusion theory. Enoch (known as “Wally” then) married Carol Rosenblum in New York in 1968 and together they raised daughter Maia Small in Oregon. Divorced in 1977, Enoch and Carol pioneered joint custo- dy, a new practice, and smoothly co-parentedMaia to adulthood. Enoch delighted in fatherhood, introducing Maia to the worlds of Nature, the mind, and building. Enoch and Carol maintained a life- long friendship fostered by personal history during their forma- tive years and their deep love for their daughter. Carol especially appreciated Enoch’s irrepressible optimism, determination, and ability to periodically reinvent himself. In 1987, Enochmarried Jeanne Rudzki , a fellow biophysicist who he hadmet at a Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, and had twomore daughters, Elena Small and Rio Small . A devoted,

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