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Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wallace L. W. Sargent
10/30/2012

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wallace L. W. Sargent

Allison Benter
Wallace L. W. Sargent, Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on October 29.
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Robert Christy
10/03/2012

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Robert Christy

Kathy Svitil
Robert F. Christy, one of the last people alive to have worked on the Manhattan Project and whose later research in astrophysics contributed to our understanding of the size of the universe, passed away on October 3 at his home in Pasadena. The former provost and acting president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was a longtime professor, was 96 years old.
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Eugene W. Cowan, 90
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.

Ralph W. Kavanagh, 86
08/23/2010

Ralph W. Kavanagh, 86

Ralph W. Kavanagh, professor of physics, emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) passed away August 16 in Pasadena, California. He was 86.

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Andrew Lange
01/23/2010

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Andrew Lange

Jon Weiner

Physicist Andrew Lange passes away at the age of 52.

F. Brock Fuller, 82
11/19/2009

F. Brock Fuller, 82

Jon Weiner

F. Brock Fuller, emeritus professor of mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), died on November 6 at the Rafael Convalescent Hospital in San Rafael, California, four years after being diagnosed with diffuse Lewy body disease. He was 82.

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Pioneer of 20th-Century Mathematics John Todd Dies
06/25/2007

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.
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Retired Caltech Physicist Robert Walker Dies; Worked on Manhattan Project as Grad Student
01/07/2005

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.
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Manhattan Project Physicist Robert Bacher Dies
11/19/2004

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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Caltech astronomer Jesse Greenstein dies; was early investigator of quasars, white dwarfs
10/22/2002

Caltech astronomer Jesse Greenstein dies; was early investigator of quasars, white dwarfs

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