Articles tagged with "obituary"

05/06/2013 21:11:12
Donald Coles, 89
Kathy Svitil
Donald Coles (MS '48, PhD '53), professor of aeronautics, emeritus, passed away on May 2. He was 89 years old.
08/19/2008 07:00:00
Philip Geoffrey Saffman, 77
Jon Weiner

Philip Geoffrey Saffman, an influential teacher and noted researcher in fluid mechanics, died peacefully after a long illness on Sunday, August 17, in Pasadena. He was 77 years old.

 
04/08/2008 07:00:00
Geneticist Giuseppe Attardi Dies
elisabeth nadin
Giuseppe Attardi, whose work linked degenerative diseases and aging to genetic mutations, died at his home in Altadena on Saturday, April 5. He was 84 years old.
 
11/30/2007 08:00:00
Neurogenetics Pioneer Seymour Benzer Dies
elisabeth nadin
Seymour Benzer, a founder of the field of modern genetics, died from a stroke on Friday, November 30, at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. He was 86.
 
06/25/2007 07:00:00
Pioneer of 20th-Century Mathematics John Todd Dies
Deborah Williams-Hedges
John Todd, one of the pioneers of numerical analysis, died Thursday, June 21, at his home in Pasadena, California. He was 96.
 
05/31/2007 07:00:00
Early Rocketeer Homer Stewart Dies
Robert Tindol
Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research who helped develop Explorer I, America's first satellite, died Saturday, May 26, at his home in Altadena, California. He was 91.
 
10/10/2006 07:00:00
Chemist Nelson J. Leonard Dies
Robert Tindol
Nelson J. Leonard, one of the most important chemists of the 20th century, died Monday, October 9, at his home in Pasadena, California. He was 90.
 
08/19/2005 07:00:00
Ronald Scott Dies; Designed Soil Scoopfor Early Unmanned Moon Mission
Robert Tindol
Ronald Scott, a soil engineer who designed the ingenious lunar scoop that first sampled extraterrestrial material, died Tuesday, August 16, at his home in Altadena after a long battle with cancer. He was 76.
 
06/01/2005 07:00:00
Norman Horowitz Dies; Conducted Experiment with Viking Lander to Search for Life on Mars
Norman Horowitz, a geneticist best known for his work on the "one-gene, one-enzyme" hypothesis and the experiments aboard the Viking lander to search for life on Mars in 1976, died on Wednesday, June 1, at his home in Pasadena. He was 90.
 
01/07/2005 08:00:00
Retired Caltech Physicist Robert Walker Dies; Worked on Manhattan Project as Grad Student
Robert Tindol
Robert Walker, a retired physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, died January 4 in New Mexico. A graduate student who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, he was 85 years old at the time of his death.
 
11/19/2004 08:00:00
Manhattan Project Physicist Robert Bacher Dies
Robert Tindol
Robert Fox Bacher, a renowned California Institute of Technology physicist who headed the experimental physics division at Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project, died Thursday, November 18, in Montecito, California. He was 99.
 
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