Memorial
In this page we list late TAMOC members as well as those scientists who indirectly shaped TAMOC as mentors or through the influence of their research and leadership. Contact the TAMOC co-chair who curates the web page (LA) to suggest other profiles you think should be included.
Don Harvey Madison, Curators’ Professor of Physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on May 14, 2022.
Obituaries: from his family.
Oleg Ivanovich Zatsarinny, Senior Researcher at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, passed away on March 2, 2021.
Obituaries: from his family, and colleagues.
Special Issue: The journal ATOMS has dedicated a special issue in memory of Oleg Zatsarinny accepting contributions until January 24, 2022.
R. Steven Berry, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the Chemistry Department of the University of Chicago, passed away on July 26, 2020.
Obituaries: NASAonline, PostIndependent, Chicago News.
Jonathan P. Dowling, passed away on June 5th, 2020, at the age of 65.
Dr. Dowling was Hearne Professor of Theoretical Physics, Co-Director, Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics Quantum Sciences and Technologies Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University.
Obituaries: LSU, Optica, Nature, Nature Photonics, NICT, Inside Quantum Technology
Anthony Starace, George Holmes University Professor of physics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, died Sept. 5 2019, at the age of 74.
Obituaries: Nebraska Today
To honor the legacy of Anthnoy Starace, DAMOP 2020 held the Focus Memorial Session "Theoretical Advances in Strong-Field and Ultrafast Physical Processes".
Philip George Burke, Professor of physics at Queen's University in Belfast (UK), died June 4 2019, at the age of 86.
Obituaries: The Royal Society, CPC
Roy Glauber, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, passed away December 26 2018, at the age of 93. He was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch.
Obituaries: Harvard Gazette, New York Times, Washington Post, APS, Physics World, Optica, Science, Nature Photonics.
Edward Gerjuoy, Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh, passed away January 31st 2018, at the age of 100.
Obituaries: Atomic Heritage, Pittsburg Post Gazette.
Howard S. Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Physics at University of Southern California, died at the age of 79 on May 17, 2015.
Obituaries: USC, Physics Today, Legacy.
Alexander Dalgarno, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, died April 9 2015, at the age of 87. Interview with AIP.
Obituaries: Royal Society, PNAS, Harvard Gazette.
Sydney Geltman, Professor Adjoint at JILA, Boulder (CO), passed away on March 17, 2014.
Obituaries: UC Boulder
Eugen Merzbacher, Chair of the Department of the Department of Physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died June 6, 2013, at the age of 92.
Obituaries: UNC, Physics Today
Martin Raymond Flannery, Regents' Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics at Georgia Tech, died May 2, 2013, at the age of 72. Ray Flannery was awarded the 1998 Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases, "For advancing the understanding of recombination processes, in particular for developing a microscopic theory of three-body ionic recombination; and for his novel applications of classical and quantum mechanical methods to the dynamics of atomic, molecular and ionic systems."
George Anthony Victor, Researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, died March 4, 2008, at the age of 71.
Obituaries: Physics Today
If you have a picture of George Anthony Victor, please send it to the co-chair curator of the webpage, LA.
Larry Spruch, Professor Emeritus of Physics at New York University, died August 10, 2006, at the age of 83.
Obituaries: Physics Today, NYU by Ben Bederson, Collection of contributions by NYU
Ian Ellery McCarthy, Professor of Physics at Flinders University (Australia), died April 23, 2005, at the age of 74.
Obituaries: Australian Academy of Sciences, Physics Today
Ugo Fano, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, died February 13, 2001, at the age of 88. Chronology.
Obituaries: Optica, Nature, National Academy of Sciences, U Chicago, Chicago Chronicle, Physics Today, NYT, The Guardian, Washington Post.