Herman B. Scholthof is Professor Emeritus who specialized in Molecular Plant Virology. For thirty years he trained students, postdoctoral associates, and other professionals in plant virus research, and has taught plant molecular biology and virology. He is a native from Gorssel in The Netherlands, co-incidentally the same town where Martinus Beijerink lived upon retirement. Scholthof attended agricultural colleges in Deventer and Leeuwarden (B.S.), and then Wageningen University (M.S.). He subsequently performed research and/or lectured in the USA at the University of Kentucky (Ph.D.), University of California-Berkeley (postdoctoral fellow), Texas A&M University (tenured Professor); and as visiting professor at Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, and Colorado State University. He now lives and writes in Colorado, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.