Edward R. D. Scott (1947–2021): A tribute to an exceptional scientist and wonderful man.

We will miss party Ed, creative Ed, kind Ed. The shock classification scheme for ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites developed by Ed with colleagues Dieter Stöffler and Klaus Keil is widely used in meteorite research (Scott et al., 1992; Stöffler et al., 1991). (Ed's first publication [Scott, 1971] reported his discovery of a new iron carbide, [Fe, Ni] SB 23 sb C SB 6 sb , in iron meteorites.) A. J. Timothy Jull 2 Ed's family: Anneliese Scott, Victoria Scott, and Rosemarie Scott References 1 Barber, D. J., and Scott, E. R. D. 2003. [Extracted from the article]