Robin Winks to be remembered May 9
A memorial service for Robin W. Winks, the Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History at Yale, will be held on Friday, May 9, at 2 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.
A reception will follow in Berkeley College, 205 Elm St.
Professor Winks, who died on April 7 at age 72, was a leading historian of the British empire and an advocate for environmental preservation who visited every park in the U.S. National Parks system. He was also a long-time columnist on detective fiction for the New Republic and the Boston Globe. A popular history teacher, he formerly chaired the Department of History and was master of Berkeley College 1977-1981.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 12, for Vernon Hughes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Physics and a senior research scientist, who died March 25 at age 82.
The service will begin at 2 p.m. in Dwight Chapel, 67 High St. A reception will follow.
Professor Hughes was well known for his study of atomic and particle physics. He made the first observation of muonium, the atom formed by an electron bond to an elementary particle called the muon. He helped develop radar and originated the use of polarized electrons in high-energy accelerators. He also helped open the field of nuclear physics to investigations with polarized electrons at low-energy accelerators.
A scholarship fund for graduate students in physics is being set up in Professor Hughes' honor. Contributions may be made to the Department of Physics, P.O. Box 208120, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
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