IN MEMORIAM Robert Katz (1917–2011)

Authors

Michael P. R. Waligorski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Francis A. Cucinotta, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Date of this Version

2011

Citation

RADIATION RESEARCH 176, 692–693 (2011). DOI: 10.1667/RR2777.1

Comments

Used by permission.

Abstract

Dr. Robert (Bob) Katz, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Nebraska, author of the Katz Model, a deceptively simple but profound parametric model of the action of charged particles on physical and biological systems, died peacefully at his home at Lincoln, NE, on March 12, 2011, after a brief illness. Bob, born in New York City in 1917, and his sister Gladys, were of immigrant Russian Jewish descent. Their parents owned a delicatessen in the Bronx, not far from the Yankee Stadium, where, as Bob recalled, Babe Ruth stopped by for hot dogs, a huge man driving a little sports car, and where Bob saw the New York Giants’ Carl Hubbell pitching a 15-inning shutout at the Polo Grounds, and when doubleheaders cost $1.