文章来源: 旧金山纪事报 于 2002-3-2 20:06:00:
复旦大学教授黄谷阳在美国杀了前女上司后自杀
原南方国家基因组中心副主任、复旦大学教授黄谷阳在美国杀人后自杀
据Palo Alto Daily News在2002年3月1日报道，Guyang Matthew Huang
（黄谷阳）于2月27日晚上8点45分在加州Mountain View枪杀了一位女性。
受害者在一家制药公司工作。黄谷阳曾经是这家制药公司的雇员。受害者在家中
开门接受比萨饼送货时，黄突然出现，向她连开数枪。目击谋杀现场的送货者和
受害者十几岁的儿子未受伤害。晚上10点30分，黄被发现在Foster City的海滨
自杀身亡。警方未公布受害者的姓名、身份和谋杀动机。
黄谷阳今年38岁，在1992年获得美国马萨诸塞大学（Amherst分校）分子生物
学博士，1998年任复旦大学教授，1999年担任中国南方国家基因组中心副主任。
后到美国工作。黄是中国南方国家基因组中心主任陈竺的合作者，曾经致函方舟
子为陈竺辩护（见“立此存照・洪国藩、陈竺事件”中“commenting Your attack
on Chen Zhu（附方舟子的回答）”）。
《旧金山纪事报》
Firing may have spurred slaying-suicide
Mountain View victim lured out by pizza delivery
Matthew B. Stannard, Suzanne Herel, Henry Lee, Chronicle Staff Writers Friday, March 1, 2002
He was a molecular biologist who had run a prestigious genome center in China. She was a successful geneticist, the co-inventor of a patented technique to screen genes in a search for cures to AIDS and cancer.
Police are baffled as to why Guyang Matthew Huang killed Tanya Holzmayer on Wednesday night during a bizarre ambush timed to the delivery of a pizza to her home in a quiet Mountain View neighborhood. He later took his own life.
One possible clue, however, came from a close associate of the slain woman. Igor Roninson, Holzmayer's friend of more than 30 years who heads the Division of Molecular Oncology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said Holzmayer fired Huang in June from a Menlo Park research company where they were working together.
The slaying -- witnessed by Holzmayer's teenage son -- stunned residents of the cherry blossom- and camellia-lined street in a city that saw just one homicide last year and two the year before.
"I just want to know why someone would want to do something like that in such a nice community," said Evan Brogan, 16, a neighbor who dialed 911 after the shooting. "I keep asking myself if I could have done more, but I know I couldn't have."
Mountain View police spokesman Jim Bennett said Holzmayer, 46, had supervised Huang, 38, for some months at PPD Discovery, a drug research firm in Menlo Park.
Huang, a Foster City resident, worked for PPD for about a year, serving as director of molecular biology and bioinformatics, said Nancy Zeleniak, spokeswoman for PPD, the parent company headquartered in Wilmington, N.C.
HOLZMAYER HAD LEFT FIRM
Holzmayer was vice president of genomic research and worked for PPD for more than four years. She left the company in December, Zeleniak said. She would not comment on whether the two had left voluntarily.
But Holzmayer's friend, Roninson, said Huang was fired over a matter of internal "company rules" that he would not describe except to dismiss as minor.
"The firing of Matthew Huang was one of your routine situations that happen all the time and are not worth a footnote," he said.
Roninson said Holzmayer left PPD by mutual agreement to pursue her own ideas, maybe start a new company.
EMPLOYEES WON'T TALK
The 60-odd employees of PPD Discovery had been instructed not to talk to the media, and more than a dozen who were approached as they left work yesterday declined to comment on any relationship between assailant and victim.
Neither Holzmayer nor Huang was known to police in their cities of work or residence, and it wasn't clear yesterday whether any restraining orders had been issued.
Police say that around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, a Domino's Pizza delivery person knocked on the door of Holzmayer's two-story Windmill Park Lane home. Holzmayer opened the door, apparently to say that she had not ordered any food,
police said.
Huang -- who police think placed the order to lure Holzmayer outside -- suddenly appeared, shoved the deliveryman aside and shot his former boss repeatedly. A witness said Huang "peeled out" in his car and fled.
"It does appear at this point that it was some kind of a ploy or ruse to get the victim outside," Bennett said. "It was a complete surprise to the pizza delivery person."
DELIVERYMAN UNHURT
The Domino's employee was uninjured and declined to comment.
Holzmayer, who was divorced, had a teenage son who was home at the time and witnessed part of the shooting, police said. Holzmayer's friend Roninson said the young man is coping with the tragedy, as is Holzmayer's mother, with whom Roninson spoke.
"Her grandson keeps consoling her," Roninson said. "Can you imagine? This happened in front of his eyes, and he's consoling his grandmother."
Less than two hours after the shooting, Huang was found dead on a Foster City levee about a quarter-mile from the home where he lived with his family. Police found a .38-caliber pistol near the body.
Police said Huang -- who apparently had been depressed in recent weeks -- had parked his car near his home, called his wife and then walked away.
"He told her he was on the bay, told her he had shot his boss and he . . . threatened suicide," Foster City Police Capt. Craig Courtin said.
A woman who answered the door of Huang's home on Albacore Lane yesterday declined to comment, as did a man who answered the phone.
Meanwhile, Holzmayer's neighbors were trying to come to terms with the crime.
David Brogan, Evan's father, said his wife, Micheline, a nurse at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, rushed to the home after the deliveryman told her someone had been shot.
"The victim was lying in a pool of blood. My wife checked her carotid artery for a pulse, and there was none," Brogan said. "She basically died instantly."
Remarkably, Brogan said, another Domino's Pizza delivery person arrived at the crime scene and scooped up the pizzas because customers were wondering where their food was. "Life goes on," he said.
But it goes on without Holzmayer, a woman who went from being a Russian refugee in 1989 to a prominent genetic researcher in the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Holzmayer, Roninson said, loved playing classical piano music and appreciated beauty in science. She would ripple with excitement and joy when the research was going well, he said.
"Every life lost is a big loss. But here was someone who was actually making a difference," he said. "I'm absolutely convinced, from knowing Tanya and having met Matthew, that it was absolute insanity."
方舟子按：这是陈竺的合作者、曾担任南方国家基因组中心副主任的Huang Guyang
的来信。他要我登出他的来信，并“开导”他什么是生物医学领域的国际一流刊物，
我就开导一下：Cell, Science和Nature是生物医学领域公认的国际一流刊物。
Gene & Development也被许多人认为是一流刊物。陈竺自称“发表了白血病诱导分
化机理一系列国际一流的科研论文”并没有登在这些刊物上。黄所提到的那些刊物，
最多算是二流。我也希望黄能“开导”我一下：陈竺为洪国藩“正名”时所引用的
结果，是不是捏造证据，公然撒谎？一个无耻到这种地步、视天下学者为阿斗的研
究者，他所做出的结果，不管发表在什么刊物上，还有多大的可信性？诚实是科学
家最基本的道德要求。一个已被证明不诚实的科学家，不管声称做出了多么重大的
成果，都不再值得我们信任。金力在陈晓宁问题上撒了谎，他做出的成果，Nature
信他，我却不信他。陈竺在洪国藩问题上撒了谎，即使他能在最好的刊物上发表论
文，我也一样不信他。（有趣的是，金力和陈竺也曾合作过）
Subject: commenting Your attack on Chen Zhu
Mr. Fang Zhouzi,
Your attack on Dr. Chen Zhu on Nov. 16 about his track record has at
least one mistake. You claimed that Dr. Chen Zhu never had publication
on “world first-class journals”. As far as I know, Dr. Chen had a paper
on journal Blood on leukemia that was its cover story. He also had a
couple PNAS paper and at least one on Genome Research. If those were
not “world first-class journals”, please enlighten me what should be.
And I’d also like to ask you to publish this letter on your xys2
website. Thanks.
For the record, I have collaborated with Zhu for years and even had
publications together. I even served as his xxxxutive deputy director
of the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai in 1999.
Yours truly,
G. Matthew Huang, Ph.D.
From California
复旦大学教授黄谷阳在美国杀了前女上司后自杀
原南方国家基因组中心副主任、复旦大学教授黄谷阳在美国杀人后自杀
据Palo Alto Daily News在2002年3月1日报道，Guyang Matthew Huang
（黄谷阳）于2月27日晚上8点45分在加州Mountain View枪杀了一位女性。
受害者在一家制药公司工作。黄谷阳曾经是这家制药公司的雇员。受害者在家中
开门接受比萨饼送货时，黄突然出现，向她连开数枪。目击谋杀现场的送货者和
受害者十几岁的儿子未受伤害。晚上10点30分，黄被发现在Foster City的海滨
自杀身亡。警方未公布受害者的姓名、身份和谋杀动机。
黄谷阳今年38岁，在1992年获得美国马萨诸塞大学（Amherst分校）分子生物
学博士，1998年任复旦大学教授，1999年担任中国南方国家基因组中心副主任。
后到美国工作。黄是中国南方国家基因组中心主任陈竺的合作者，曾经致函方舟
子为陈竺辩护（见“立此存照・洪国藩、陈竺事件”中“commenting Your attack
on Chen Zhu（附方舟子的回答）”）。
《旧金山纪事报》
Firing may have spurred slaying-suicide
Mountain View victim lured out by pizza delivery
Matthew B. Stannard, Suzanne Herel, Henry Lee, Chronicle Staff Writers Friday, March 1, 2002
He was a molecular biologist who had run a prestigious genome center in China. She was a successful geneticist, the co-inventor of a patented technique to screen genes in a search for cures to AIDS and cancer.
Police are baffled as to why Guyang Matthew Huang killed Tanya Holzmayer on Wednesday night during a bizarre ambush timed to the delivery of a pizza to her home in a quiet Mountain View neighborhood. He later took his own life.
One possible clue, however, came from a close associate of the slain woman. Igor Roninson, Holzmayer's friend of more than 30 years who heads the Division of Molecular Oncology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said Holzmayer fired Huang in June from a Menlo Park research company where they were working together.
The slaying -- witnessed by Holzmayer's teenage son -- stunned residents of the cherry blossom- and camellia-lined street in a city that saw just one homicide last year and two the year before.
"I just want to know why someone would want to do something like that in such a nice community," said Evan Brogan, 16, a neighbor who dialed 911 after the shooting. "I keep asking myself if I could have done more, but I know I couldn't have."
Mountain View police spokesman Jim Bennett said Holzmayer, 46, had supervised Huang, 38, for some months at PPD Discovery, a drug research firm in Menlo Park.
Huang, a Foster City resident, worked for PPD for about a year, serving as director of molecular biology and bioinformatics, said Nancy Zeleniak, spokeswoman for PPD, the parent company headquartered in Wilmington, N.C.
HOLZMAYER HAD LEFT FIRM
Holzmayer was vice president of genomic research and worked for PPD for more than four years. She left the company in December, Zeleniak said. She would not comment on whether the two had left voluntarily.
But Holzmayer's friend, Roninson, said Huang was fired over a matter of internal "company rules" that he would not describe except to dismiss as minor.
"The firing of Matthew Huang was one of your routine situations that happen all the time and are not worth a footnote," he said.
Roninson said Holzmayer left PPD by mutual agreement to pursue her own ideas, maybe start a new company.
EMPLOYEES WON'T TALK
The 60-odd employees of PPD Discovery had been instructed not to talk to the media, and more than a dozen who were approached as they left work yesterday declined to comment on any relationship between assailant and victim.
Neither Holzmayer nor Huang was known to police in their cities of work or residence, and it wasn't clear yesterday whether any restraining orders had been issued.
Police say that around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, a Domino's Pizza delivery person knocked on the door of Holzmayer's two-story Windmill Park Lane home. Holzmayer opened the door, apparently to say that she had not ordered any food,
police said.
Huang -- who police think placed the order to lure Holzmayer outside -- suddenly appeared, shoved the deliveryman aside and shot his former boss repeatedly. A witness said Huang "peeled out" in his car and fled.
"It does appear at this point that it was some kind of a ploy or ruse to get the victim outside," Bennett said. "It was a complete surprise to the pizza delivery person."
DELIVERYMAN UNHURT
The Domino's employee was uninjured and declined to comment.
Holzmayer, who was divorced, had a teenage son who was home at the time and witnessed part of the shooting, police said. Holzmayer's friend Roninson said the young man is coping with the tragedy, as is Holzmayer's mother, with whom Roninson spoke.
"Her grandson keeps consoling her," Roninson said. "Can you imagine? This happened in front of his eyes, and he's consoling his grandmother."
Less than two hours after the shooting, Huang was found dead on a Foster City levee about a quarter-mile from the home where he lived with his family. Police found a .38-caliber pistol near the body.
Police said Huang -- who apparently had been depressed in recent weeks -- had parked his car near his home, called his wife and then walked away.
"He told her he was on the bay, told her he had shot his boss and he . . . threatened suicide," Foster City Police Capt. Craig Courtin said.
A woman who answered the door of Huang's home on Albacore Lane yesterday declined to comment, as did a man who answered the phone.
Meanwhile, Holzmayer's neighbors were trying to come to terms with the crime.
David Brogan, Evan's father, said his wife, Micheline, a nurse at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, rushed to the home after the deliveryman told her someone had been shot.
"The victim was lying in a pool of blood. My wife checked her carotid artery for a pulse, and there was none," Brogan said. "She basically died instantly."
Remarkably, Brogan said, another Domino's Pizza delivery person arrived at the crime scene and scooped up the pizzas because customers were wondering where their food was. "Life goes on," he said.
But it goes on without Holzmayer, a woman who went from being a Russian refugee in 1989 to a prominent genetic researcher in the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Holzmayer, Roninson said, loved playing classical piano music and appreciated beauty in science. She would ripple with excitement and joy when the research was going well, he said.
"Every life lost is a big loss. But here was someone who was actually making a difference," he said. "I'm absolutely convinced, from knowing Tanya and having met Matthew, that it was absolute insanity."
方舟子按：这是陈竺的合作者、曾担任南方国家基因组中心副主任的Huang Guyang
的来信。他要我登出他的来信，并“开导”他什么是生物医学领域的国际一流刊物，
我就开导一下：Cell, Science和Nature是生物医学领域公认的国际一流刊物。
Gene & Development也被许多人认为是一流刊物。陈竺自称“发表了白血病诱导分
化机理一系列国际一流的科研论文”并没有登在这些刊物上。黄所提到的那些刊物，
最多算是二流。我也希望黄能“开导”我一下：陈竺为洪国藩“正名”时所引用的
结果，是不是捏造证据，公然撒谎？一个无耻到这种地步、视天下学者为阿斗的研
究者，他所做出的结果，不管发表在什么刊物上，还有多大的可信性？诚实是科学
家最基本的道德要求。一个已被证明不诚实的科学家，不管声称做出了多么重大的
成果，都不再值得我们信任。金力在陈晓宁问题上撒了谎，他做出的成果，Nature
信他，我却不信他。陈竺在洪国藩问题上撒了谎，即使他能在最好的刊物上发表论
文，我也一样不信他。（有趣的是，金力和陈竺也曾合作过）
Subject: commenting Your attack on Chen Zhu
Mr. Fang Zhouzi,
Your attack on Dr. Chen Zhu on Nov. 16 about his track record has at
least one mistake. You claimed that Dr. Chen Zhu never had publication
on “world first-class journals”. As far as I know, Dr. Chen had a paper
on journal Blood on leukemia that was its cover story. He also had a
couple PNAS paper and at least one on Genome Research. If those were
not “world first-class journals”, please enlighten me what should be.
And I’d also like to ask you to publish this letter on your xys2
website. Thanks.
For the record, I have collaborated with Zhu for years and even had
publications together. I even served as his xxxxutive deputy director
of the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai in 1999.
Yours truly,
G. Matthew Huang, Ph.D.
From California
