Thursday, August 8, 2002

Links to Mandel Obituaries in Various Journals

Obituary in Physics Today Aug. 2001. http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-8/p62.html

Obituary in OE Magazine http://oemagazine.com/newscast/021401_newscast01.html

Physics Web http://PhysicsWeb.org/article/news/05/2/10

UR News Releast http://www.rochester.edu/pr/News/NewsReleases/people/mandelobit.html

In UR Currents http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Currents/V29/V29N04/story04.html

Information on the Optical Society of America (OSA) Mandel Memorial Symposium Long Beach, CA 0ct. 2001. http://spider.pas.rochester.edu:8080/wwwPAS/PASforms/news/newsReader$0000163

Pictures from the Mandel Memorial Session at the Optics Conferences, Rochester, NY summer 2001. (The International Conference on Quantum Information, June 10-13, 2001 and the Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics June 13-16, 2001) http://www.its.caltech.edu/~qoptics/Presentations/MandelRochester-web.pdf

and NY Times: METROPOLITAN DESK | February 13, 2001, Tuesday Leonard Mandel, 73, Revealer Of Light's Weirdness, Is Dead By JAMES GLANZ (NYT) Obituary (Obit); Biography 860 words Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 8, Column 1 ABSTRACT - Dr Leonard Mandel, physicist whose experiments with light vividly demonstrated strange, Alice-in-Wonderland quality of reality at microscopic level, dies at age 73; photo (M)

Full NY Time obituary is archived at: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/yigal/DeptNews/Mandel/mandelobit.jpg

Mandel, who was elected posthumously to the National Academy of Sciences is listed among the deceased members (which include Robert Marshak and other distinguished Rochester faculty and alumni).

The current living Members of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.national-academies.org/) from Rochester are:

University of Rochester (8)

Conwell, Esther M.

Fenno, Richard F., Jr.

Gates, Marshall

Huizenga, John R.

Jones, Ronald W.

McKenzie, Lionel W.

Millon, Rene

Sherman, Fred

Article submitted by:
Arie Bodek
8/8/02; 8:44:49 PM

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