Alex Becker

I don´t know whether this message will reach Alex´s family. Sadly, I have lost touch with them. I was very distressed to lean of Alex´s passing, having come across this announcement on the Internet almost by accident. Born in London in 1940, I live in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, and am possibly the only surviving member of his family on his mother´s side. We were technically distant cousins, but since the family was decimated in the Holocaust, we cherished those few survivors such...

Alex started a professorship at UC Berkeley in 1981. I was a brand new masters student at the time. Alex was also the director of research for Questor Surveys, a Canadian contractor who specialized in collecting Airborne Electromagnetic data using the INPUT system. I was tasked with creating an interpretation methodology for the INPUT data. Alex and I had a great professional success on the project. After the project was completed I delivered and installed my automated interpretation...

I worked with Dr. Becker at Questor Surveys. He was a kind and delightful person.

I feel fortunate to have had a teacher and mentor in Alex during my time at Berkeley and to have stayed in contact for many years thereafter. Alex's valuable advice dispensed in his signature combination of unminced words, quick wit, and sometimes irreverent sense of humor was an inspiration and will be missed.

I am the last of the Mineral Engineering faculty still teaching Berkeley. Alex was an important mentor of mine when I started as a young assistant professor in 1992 . I remember those days fondly . My sincere condolences to Alex´s family .

My sincere condolences to Alex's family. I, among many other, was privileged and fortunate to be among those he shared his vast knowledge with.