In Passing

I learnt today of the death on May 10th of Ray Drabble after a short illness.  Ray is best remembered in the thermoelectrics community for his work as the inspirational leader of the team that determined the band structure of bismuth telluride from galvanomagnetic measurements during the nineteen-fifties.  Later he turned his attention to phonon conductivity and as Reader in the Physics Department at the University of Exeter did some exceptional work on the third-order elastic constants.  He was a source of encouragement to his colleagues in the Solid Physics Group at the Hir

On Monday, 6 April, I received the attached note from one of Bill Whitmore's daughters, informing me that Bill had died on 28 February.

Bill and I had stayed in touch over the years.  I knew he was having some heart problems but I did not know about the lung cancer.

He was a very good systems engineer who knew more about the SNAP-27, MHW-RTG and GPHS-RTG programs than almost anyone.  He will be missed.