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Professor Emeritus Dr. Yen Fu Bow dead at 92 years of age.

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Professor Emeritus Dr. Yen Fu Bow died at age 92 on April 1, 2013 at University Hospital. Dr. Bow was a faculty member in the then separate Department of Physics (there was a separate Department of Astronomy under Head Dr. William H. Wehlau until the amalgamation of the two departments in 1996), from 1966 to 1986.

You can view Dr. Bow’s obituary at http://www.westviewfuneralchapel.com/pages/obituaries/details.php?p=1274.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Don Moorcroft recalls that Dr. Bow received his PhD rather late in life, at age 42, from The University of Michigan.

You can view Don Moorcroft’s history of the Department either on the departmental news->history archives or on Don’s personal web pages.

I was taught 4th year nuclear physics by Dr. Bow. There were two students, so we were lectured in Dr. Bow’s office. I recall him as a very kind and generous teacher who always had a ready smile to give.