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Sean Twomey Obituary
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Glenn Shaw
October 26, 2013
Sean Twomey was my role model as a scientist. He was equally at home in theory or in constructing experiments and he had one of the best scientific intuitions that I have ever seen. He was also a fine and very real human being. I miss him.
Harry ten Brink
January 25, 2013
I have fond memories of a visit in 1987 during which I could personally express my great admiration for what still is my standard book on "atmospheric aerosol" and their effects on climate. My admiration grew when I learned that that the work had been concipiated on the long bus rides commuting to and from work during his sabbatical at CSIRO.
At this very moment I am scanning in his 1991 article "Aerosols, Clouds and Radiation", which is for me the best introduction to Global Warming. This brought me to googling and discovering this obituary.
Marc Valdez
January 23, 2013
Dr. Twomey was always an inspiration - the smartest man I ever knew. I helped him grade freshman meteorology exams, and found myself surprised that what he thought simple often befuddled poor grad student me.
Dr. Twomey was always approachable. When I had a question he would mull it over for a second, gesture towards the library, and reply "Have you looked in the big black book?" (meaning Pruppacher & Klett), or sometimes the "big red book" (meaning Abramowtiz & Stegun), or "the big book" (meaning Gradshteyn & Rhyzik). An extraordinary man.
I remember he once told the story of how he was working alone on some problematic equipment that had, in the recent past, generated small shocks, when suddenly he received a very powerful shock. He stood back in surprise, and realized he had stopped breathing. Alone, and before he lost consciousness, he methodically taught himself how to breathe again.
He didn't always interface well with some of the early PC technology. He was too impatient with floppy disk drives, and opened them prematurely. But he understood technology, and science, better than just about anyone.
Robert Rabinoff
November 13, 2012
Dr. Twomey was on my doctoral committee in 1975. His insight and insistence on doing science the right way made me a better thinker and a better human being. May his soul be bound up in the bonds of life.
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