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Don Backer RIP
Category: academia • astro
Posted on: July 26, 2010 1:01 AM, by Steinn Sigurðsson
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This is very sad, he was not particularly old. At least he lived long enough to see orbital telescopes able to detect the kind of high-energy phenomena that were central to his research.
Posted by: Birger Johansson | July 26, 2010 8:05 AM
That is sad to hear. I took a semester course with him way back when and he was a good teacher; RIP.
Posted by: changcho | July 26, 2010 3:30 PM