I just read about Lenny's death today, in the Stuyvesant Alumni Spectator. So sad. He was one of the few friends I had at Stuyvesant. In fact, when I went off to college (UW-Madison), I left a large telescope I made in shop class, in his parent's basement. The last time we met, at a 50-year Stuy reunion in 2010, we had lunch and I jokingly asked him about the telescope -- an eight-inch Newtonian reflector. He had no memory of it. Since 2010, I kept meaning to reach out to him but, of course, life intervened.
RIP, old friend.

i was a medical resident at columbia very interested in immubology
He was a great teacher. When i told him i was getting interested in role of immunology in psychiatry He unlike most other who i discussed this with instead of smirking etc encouraged me to follow my interests and suggeted some approaches
  i really miss him and think of him often as i pursue my psychoimmunology research  One of my greatest regrets was that because of my shyness i didnt keep up  more contact with him despite his invariable welcoming manner and willingnes to find to find time to talk to me

I just heard of Len's passing today!What a shock! Len has been a part of my life since 1982 when I was a fellow at the dept. Of rheumatology and did immunology research with him. Len was a genius in scientific immunology research who made multiple and major contributions with persistent effects on the way we view the immune system. I remember personal sessions wth him drawing his ideas for new experiments on the blackboard in his office. His demanding standards for highly controlled experiments with a clear hypothesis. His critical review of the data. And especially how he came to my lab bench one day waving a paper that consequently led me to isolate the first gammadelta T cell and us to write the seminal nature paper containing the first description of this new type of immune cell. 
Len was also a scientist who could communicate exceptionally well with the younger staff often hosting us at home with Ellen. Our friendship extended well after my family moved back to Israel and we visited each other many times over the ensuing decades. For me Len was the most important person influencing my entire subsequent career and way of scientific thinking. I was lucky lucky lucky to have met you Len Chess.

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9 abril, 1943 – 19 octubre, 2018

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