Article Obituary Arthur David Baynes-Cope (1928–2002) was published on June 1, 2003 in the journal Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material (volume 24, issue 2).
As Christian Behl cycled to work that morning, he was blissfully unaware of the commotion brewing atop the hill. At the Salk Institute laboratories in San Diego, California, a media gathering awaited. It was Behl they were after. But why the fuss? That very morning Behl had published a paper in the journal Cell showing that free radicals played a heavy hand in Alzheimer's disease.1 Apparently, the electron bachelors could be triggering the abnormal protein tangles that are the disease's hallmark. The implications were enormous. Would antioxidants such as vitamin E prevent or cure this devastating disease? It was 1994, and there were no ready answers.
