Tom Clark, of "Totally Accurate Clock" fame (as well as many other
things) has stopped accumulating seconds of life.
https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2008-August/032649.html
Subject:[IVSmail] Passing of TomClark{External}
Date:Fri, 1 Oct 2021 18:45:00 +0000
From:Behrend, Dirk (GSFC-61A.0)[NVI INC] <[email protected]
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Dear colleagues,
It is my sad duty to inform you that Dr. TomClarkpassed away on
Tuesday, September 28 at the age of 82. The VLBI world has lost one of
its pioneers.
Tom received a Ph.D. in astro-geophysics from the University of Colorado
in Boulder. His dissertation involved building a very large 10 MHz
Radio Telescope on a mesa north of Boulder. After spending two years
as Werner von Braun’s Solar Physicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight
Center in Alabama, he moved to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in
1968. In 1969, he also joined the University of Maryland Physics &
Astronomy faculty.
His various talents and connections were instrumental in establishing
the Goddard VLBI Group. He was the long-term principal investigator
for the VLBI activities at NASA GSFC and directed the program for over
30 years until his retirement in 2001. In 2005, he became the first
non-Russian scientist to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Institute of
Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his lifetime
contributions to the development of VLBI.
Tom was an avid amateur radio (ham radio) hobbyist. He was also very
fond of photography, traveling, and his supercharged Mini Cooper.
Please join me in sharing our condolences with Tom's family, friends,
and colleagues.
With sadness,
Dirk Behrend
IVS Coordinating Center
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