Dr Geoffrey H. Gold was a member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, and passed away on February 10, 2000, after a courageous battle with ALS. He was a member of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Biophysical Society, Society for Neuroscience and the David Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. A native of Shaker Heights, OH, Geoff received his BS in Engineering Physics from Ohio State University in 1971. He earned his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1977, studying photoreceptor coupling in the retina with Dr John Dowling. His photoreceptor research continued from 1978 to 1981 with studies on transmembrane calcium fluxes in retinal rods with Dr Juan Korenbrot at UCSF, and from 1982 to 1988 as an Assistant Professor at Yale University.