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Articles tagged with "obituary"

05/06/2013

Douglas Smith

Donald Earl Coles (MS '48, PhD '53), professor of aeronautics, emeritus, passed away on May 2 at age 89. Coles was a master instrument builder famed for his ingeniously designed and precisely executed experiments. His doctoral dissertation provided the first comprehensive set of data on supersonic boundary layers. A few years later, he made an important addition to the theory of turbulent boundary layers that he christened "the law of the wake."

12/28/2011

Former Caltech Public Relations VP Dies

Kathy Svitil

Bob O'Rourke, of Pasadena, the former vice president for public relations at the California Institute of Technology, died Dec. 27 of complications following a lung transplant. He was 72.

11/17/2011

Nicholas W. Tschoegl, 93

Marcus Woo

Nicholas W. Tschoegl, a leading polymer scientist, lover of languages, and professor of chemical engineering, emeritus, passed away on the morning of November 14 at his home in Pasadena. He was 93.

10/18/2011

Aron Kuppermann, 85

Kimm Fesenmaier

Aron Kuppermann, professor of chemical physics, emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) passed away October 15 at his home in Altadena, California. He was 85 years old.

04/26/2011

W. Barclay Kamb, 79

Katie Neith

Caltech remembers and celebrates the life of alumnus W. Barclay Kamb, Barbara and Stanley R. Rawn, Jr., Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus, who died at his home on April 21. He was 79.

04/14/2011

Trustee Sidney Harman, 92

Lori Oliwenstein

Caltech mourns the loss of trustee Sidney Harman, who died in Washington, D.C., on April 12 of complications from leukemia. He was 92.

12/01/2010

Thomas J. Ahrens, 74

Marcus Woo

Thomas J. Ahrens, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, at Caltech, died at his home in Pasadena on November 24. He was 74.

11/11/2010

Caltech Visiting Associate Richard J. Bing, 101

Kathy Svitil

Richard J. Bing, who worked with the aviator Charles Lindbergh and the Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute on an early version of the artificial heart and the perfusion of human organs, and whose musical compositions led to a friendship with the composer Carl Orff, died Monday, November 8, 2010.

11/09/2010

Eugene W. Cowan, 90

Kathy Svitil

Eugene W. "Bud" Cowan, professor of physics, emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), passed away November 4 in Menlo Park, California. He was 90.

10/08/2010

Thad Vreeland Jr., 85

Lori Oliwenstein

Thad Vreeland Jr., emeritus professor of materials science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), passed away August 9 in San Gabriel, California. He was 85 years old.

09/27/2010

Jerrold E. Marsden, 68

Jon Weiner

Jerrold Eldon Marsden, the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech, passed away on the evening of September 21, 2010, with his wife and daughter by his side. He was 68.