<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CRC News No.1245:2008年10月28日 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CRC会員 各位 CRC事務局 宇宙線研支部 *****************< 訃報: M. A. Pomerantz博士 ご逝去 >***************** 米国Bartol研究所もと所長のM. A. Pomerantz博士が、10月25日ご逝去されました。 享年91だそうです。 生前の博士の足跡については添付ファイルか、または以下のHPで見られます。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Pomerantz 宗像 ----- Original Message ----- From: jwbieber [at] bartol.udel.edu To: kmuna00 [at] gipac.shinshu-u.ac.jp ; asaizrivera [at] gmail.com ; ruffolo.physics [at] gmail.com ; Adri.Burger [at] nwu.ac.za Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:34 PM Subject: Fwd: Martin A. Pomerantz, December 17, 1916 to October 25, 2008, Folks .. Sad news .. In case you haven't heard already .. John B ---------------------------- Original Message --------------------------- Subject: Fwd: Martin A. Pomerantz, December 17, 1916 to October 25, 2008, From: "Leonard Shulman" Date: Sun, October 26, 2008 11:13 pm To: "John Bieber" Cc: "John Clem" "Roger Pyle" "Trudy Marshall" "Joanne Burchard" "Stuart Pittel" "Dennis C. Collins" "George Hadjipanayis" "Dermott J. Mullan" "Todor Stanev" shafi [at] bartol.udel.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin forwarded message: > From: "Francis Halzen" > Date: October 26, 2008 10:07:52 PM EDT > To: icecube-c [at] icecube.wisc.edu > Subject: [icecube-c] [Fwd: Martin A. Pomerantz, December 17, 1916 to > October 25, 2008, RIP] > Reply-To: francis.halzen [at] icecube.wisc.edu > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: Martin A. Pomerantz, December 17, 1916 to October 25, 2008, > RIP > From: "John Lynch" > Date: Sun, October 26, 2008 9:00 pm > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Friends, > > My good friend and colleague Martin A. Pomerantz died this morning > at his > home in Northern California after a long bout with cancer. He was 91 > years old. > > I met Martin sometime in the 1970s, undoubtedly at an AGU meeting. > I got to know him much better in the 80s when I became the Space Physics > Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters and then in 1985 he became one of > my grantees when I moved the US Antarctic Program at NSF. Martin was an > extordinarly gifted and broad scientist. He carried out decades of > cosmic ray research in Antarctica (and elsewhere), did solar seismology, > submillimeter astronomy and cosmic microwave background radiation > cosmological measurements, all at the South Pole. His list of awards and > other honors is very long, but for the work he did with NSF (mostly with > USAP) he received the Distinguished Public Service Award; a large feature > in the USARP Mountains is named the Pomerantz Tableland; a large > astronomical observatory building at South Pole is the Martin A. Pomerantz > Observatory (called Mapo, rhymes with may pole, by one and all); and an > area a few miles from South Pole where Pomerantz and his collaborators set > up their solar telescope has been called Pomerantzland by all Pole citizens > for decades. > > In my view, Martin's greatest talent was to have the vision to see how a > new and important experiment could be done and then to gather together the > very best people to do the experiment. He made a study of just how > Antarctica could be used and then convinced others of its value. He was > almost single-handedly responsible for the development of South Pole into > a major site for Astronomy. > > He wrote a book, Astronomy on Ice - Observing the Universe from the South > Pole, which is published by The American Polar Society > (http://www.ampolarsociety.org/index.html) that tells the story of his > life in scientist and his fascination with polar regions after going to a > parade in 1930 honoring Richard E. Byrd on his return from Antarctica. > > Martin is survived by his wife, Maggie, and two children, Jane and Martin. > > It was a genuine pleasure and honor to have known Martin for so long. He > was one of the nicest and most decent people I have known. > > Earlier this evening I looked at the Wikipedia article on Martin > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Pomerantz) and was astounded that > they already had his date of death, today. How do they do that? > By the way, that article is interesting and worth a look. > > Sadly, > > John > > John T. Lynch > 2002 Longpointe Circle > Venice, FL 34293 > > jlynch137 [at] comcast.net > 941 539-5623 (C) > 941 408-9729 (H) > > ************************************************ > Department of Physics > 608 262 2667; cell 608 513 9815 > fax 608 262 8628 > 608 262 4964 (Linda Dolan) > > IceCube, 222 W Washington, Madison WI 53703 > 608 890 1124 (Kim Kreiger) > ************************************************ ======================================