Geoffrey-Chester-Obituary

Geoffrey Chester

Ithaca, New York

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Chester, GeoffreyGeoffrey Chester died on Friday, June 27, 2014, following a very sudden and brief illness. Geoffrey was a professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University, where he had served as the director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), an active member of the...

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Thirty years ago I made a decision to come to Cornell because in our discussions then Associate Dean Chester impressed me as a man of his word, a colleague who could be trusted. Over the years, that first impression was confirmed again and again. Geoffrey Chester was a modest but most rare person of absolute integrity who by nature understood fairness and generosity of spirit.