title: Biographical memoir: Alexander Beaumont Hope, Australian biophysicist, 1928-2008.
abstract: This introductory article is the first of four short articles from the Tribute to Alex Hope Symposium held at the 2008 Australian Society for Biophysics meeting in Canberra, Australia, as a tribute to Professor Alex Hope, who died in July last year. As well as briefly introducing the other three articles by three former PhD students, it will also be a biographical memoir of Alex Hope.
authors.affiliation: School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia. p.barry@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Hans G L
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Coster
authors.forename: Wah Soon
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Chow