History: Karl Strauch

["Mike Grissom" <mpg1@coastside.net>]

radsafe'rs,

The following was in the January 10, 2000 San Jose Mercury
News (with a New York Times byline):

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Karl Strauch, studied
the universe's structure

Dr. Karl Strauch, a high-energy physicist who helped provide
insights into the fundamental structure of matter and energy,
died Jan. 3 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston. He was
77 and lived in Lexington, Mass.

He had Parkinson's disease, but the immediate cause was
pneumonia, said officials at Harvard University, where Dr.
Strauch formerly headed the physics department.

Dr. Strauch's research used giant accelerators smashing
subatomic particles together in search of the basic building
blocks of the universe. In the early 1970s, his experiments
produced hints of the existence of the quark, a previously
uncharted category of matter. At the time, he was directing
the Cambridge Electron Accelerator.

Dr. Strauch also took part in colliding-beam experiments at
the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, known
as CERN; the Stanford Linear Accelerator, and the DESY
laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.

Dr. Strauch was born in Giessen, Germany, and moved to
the United States in 1939. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa
from the University of California-Berkeley in 1943 and served
in the Navy in World War II. He returned to Berkeley and
received a doctorate in 1950.

He then went to Harvard for advanced studies and joined the
faculty in 1953. He was named a professor in 1962, and from
1967 to 1974 directed the Cambridge accelerator. In 1975
he became the George Vasmer Leverett professor of physics
and from 1978 to 1982 he headed the physics department.
He retired in 1993 with emeritus status.

He wrote nearly 150 scientific papers and was a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Strauch is survived by his wife of 49 years, Maria Gerson
Strauch; two sons, Roger of Piedmont and Hans of Belmont,
Mass., and five grandchildren.

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Michael P. Grissom
Email:  mpg1@coastside.net



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