Don Backer died at home sunday.
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Don Backer, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley who discovered the first millisecond pulsar, died on July 25. He was director of Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Laboratory and the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Hat Creek, California - a collection of 42 dishes that recently began…
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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.
That is sad to hear. I took a semester course with him way back when and he was a good teacher; RIP.