Fourteen years ago, a new arrival at LCR and in France, Ellis took me under his wing. It wasn't just work we did together or the advice he gave. There was something familiar and reassuring about working and socializing with this man, only a few years younger than my own father. Except I laughed a hell of a lot more with him. With Ellis came a torrent of smart jokes and this steady flow of play on words. Then there were the interesting facts, the discussion of the latest book he was reading and the parsing of the politics of the moment, general science and philosophy. And, of course, Ellis was the same person at work as well as away from it. Easygoing, fiercely intelligent, and an affectionate guy with his wife and kids, and even broader family, constantly on his lips. I'll miss him.
Dinos Xenopoulos
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