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Don Turcotte

Don Turcotte, the former Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Geological Sciences who brought his aeronautic research roots into pioneering collaborations in the study of mantle dynamics and plate tectonics, died Feb. 4 in Davis, California. He...
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Wesley Guebert

If it was up to our dad, he would not have an obituary. If he did, it would read "Wesley R. Guebert died on September 26, 2024." We, his six kids, want to add a bit more. Wes was blindingly intelligent, but often would not let that show.He loved to grow things; roses...
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Samuel E. Moskowitz

Prof. Moskowitz grew up in the Bronx and studied at the High School of Music and Art (having inherited his father’s love of opera and talent for creating fine art). Truly multi-gifted, he also loved science and math and chose to pursue instead his BS in Civil...
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Clarence Eugene Peterson

Clarence Eugene Peterson, age 96, passed away peacefully on August 25, 2023 at his home in Rolling Hills Estates. The son of John Gunnar Peterson and Cerona Erickson, he was born in 1927 on the family farm in Michigan. Clarence grew up in Chicago and upon high school...
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