News

• 2008-01 Tony Tuzzolino dies January 9, 2008. He was 76.

• 2007-12 Symposium for Charlie Fan's 90th birthday - Tucson, January 15, 2008
• 2007-11 John Grunsfeld is featured in the UofC Magazine
• 2007-09 Dick Glennie, Linda's husband dies September 15, 2007. He was 69.
  Funeral info and guest book - Obituary in Journal of Oak Park
• 2007-05 News from Nicholas Boruta - The last PHD student of Eugene Parker
• 2007-05 Frank C. Jones dies May 2, 2007. He was 74.
• 2007-03 Marcia Cambric dies March, 2007. She was 68.

• 2006-10 John Grunsfeld to go into space for the 5th time - Hubble mission
• 2006-10 Müller Symposium - For his Emeritus status
                 Announcement, pictures, and presentations
• 2006-07 News from Dick Blenz - Worked for Simpson 1955-1966
• 2006-05 Tuzzolino Symposium - With pictures
• 2006-04 Tom Bogdan named director of the Space Environment Center of NOAA
• 2006-01 Brian Cartwright Named SEC General Counsel

• 2003-2005 Old News

The Early Days

• The Cosmic Ray Group in EFI - TBD
• The Chicago Midway Labs Story - From an old booklet scanned by Warren P. Harvey
• 1964 - LASR is dedicated by James Web - TBD
• CML/LASR Recollections - Sent in by alumni
• Meyer's Flyers - TBD

Directories

• LASR Alumni List - Help me complete it
• LASR Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students - Very outdated (2000)
• University of Chicago Engineering Center (UCEC) - Skip's creation
• Department of Physics - Faculty, graduate students, ...
• Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI)

Pictures

• Midway Labs Mug Shots - 1960s
• LASR 1983 staff photo - With legend
• LASR 2004 staff photo - Only 8 or so of the original staff are left
• The LASR Memorabilia Collection - More documents and pictures sent in by alumni
  • With pictures of Yvette McLean courtesy of Judy Kroeger

Wanted

• Old LASR phone books - 1970s and 1980s
• Other group pictures (scan at 200 dpi and save as jpg)
• Your story - Send it and I will post it - sort of like your own website

Recently Departed

• Tony Tuzzolino (1932-2008)
  • Sun Times - January 11, 2008
  • Chicago Tribune - February 1, 2008
• Frank C. Jones (1932-2007)
• Marcia Cambric (1939-2007)
• John Cole (1932-2005)
• Ed Blume (1916-2005)
• Frank DiDonna (1956-2004)
• Moises Garcia Munoz (1922-2004)
  • Tribune notice - September 27, 2004
  • Tribune - October 2, 2004
• Pioneer-10 (1972-2003)
• Florenzel Ellis (1915-2002)
• Ken Yates (1924-2002)
  • Greenville News - August 14, 2002
• Yvette McLean (1948-2003)
• Gordon Lentz (1929-2002)
• Anthony Turkevich (1916-2002)
• Peter Meyer (1920-2002)
  • Chicago Sun-Times - March 11, 2002
  • University of Chicago Chronicle - April 11, 2002
  • Biographical Memoir - National Academy of Sciences by Eugene Parker
• John Simpson (1916-2000)
  • Chicago Tribune - September 2, 2000
  • New-York Times - September 7, 2000
  • Students of John Simpson - With theses
  • Biographical Memoir - National Academy of Sciences by Eugene Parker
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekar (1910-1995)
• George Vrabel (1909-1993)

Links

• Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Department of Physics
• Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research (LASR)
• Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI)
  • University of Chicago Engineering Center (UCEC

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