July 2016 213 Resolutions of Respect © 2016 Te Authors. Te Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc., on behalf of the Ecological Society of America. Tis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. by Warren Porter Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Professor David Gates was a kind, generous, good-humored, gracious visionary with prodigious energy, focus, and love of life. He was also a marvelously clear, precise writer. Professionally, he was a physicist and ecologist, and ultimately Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Michigan. He died at age 94 in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 4 March 2016. David was born in Manhattan, Kansas, on 27 May 1921. He was the adopted son of Frank C. and Margaret T. Gates, and received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Michigan. His childhood was spent in Kansas where his father was a distinguished plant ecologist with Kansas State University. Frank also taught at the University of Michigan Biological Station at Douglas Lake, Michigan, where he would take his family in the summer. All of David’s boyhood summers were spent there. The family traveled all of the contiguous states during the 1920s and 1930s. As a teenager, David became an Eagle Scout with bronze, gold, and silver palms. He suspended work on his Ph.D. during the war to go to Washington and work on the war effort at Johns Hopkins. During World War II, he worked on the performance of the proximity fuse at the University of Michigan and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He married Marian Francis Penley, his childhood sweetheart, on 3 June 1944. After the war, he returned to Michigan to ﬁnish his Ph.D., which he received in 1948. David was associate professor of physics at the University of Denver from 1947 to 1955 where he worked on the radiation properties of the atmosphere and climate, knowledge that would be important in his later work on plant and animal interactions with the physical environment. In 1955, David and Mar- ian moved to London, UK, where he became the liaison ofﬁcer and the director of the London Branch Resolution of Respect David Murray Gates 1921–2016