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Carl Curtis Duzen - Obituary

April 16, 2020

Remembrance by Jim Nelson: In 1975, Carl Curtis Duzen was an exchange teacher from California and landed at Lower Merion High School, a sister school to Harriton High School, where I was teaching.

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Curtis Hieggelke - Obituary

January 8, 2020

September 6, 1941 - January 1, 2020

Dr. Curtis J. Hieggelke Hall of Fame community college teacher and AAPT TYC leader, died January 1, 2020 at the age of 78.

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Frederick Reif - Obituary

August 12, 2019

Frederick Reif, emeritus professor in Physics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, died on August 11th, 2019. He was 92.

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Elisha Huggins - Obituary

June 18, 2019

Elisha (Lish) Huggins passed away on June 18 at the age of 85. Huggins was an undergraduate at MIT and received his Ph.D. degree at Caltech under Richard Feynman in 1962.

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Barbara Lotze - Obituary

January 28, 2019

Born January 4, 1924 in Mezokovesd, Hungary, Barbara Lotze, passed away January 17, 2019.

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David Keeports - Obituary

December 31, 2018

David Keeports passed away in December 2019 from complications of Parkinson's disease. Dave had a long career as a physics professor at Mills College in Oakland, California.

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