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Eugen Merzbacher

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Eugen MerzbacherApril 9, 1921 - June 6, 2013Chapel HillEugen Merzbacher, prominent theoretical atomic and nuclear physicist, former chair of the Physics Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-founder of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, died June 6 (Thursday)...

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Eugen was a positive influence on this earth!

Great author, teacher, and person!

Another great stalwart and teacher of physics has passed away. Eugen will always be remembered for his book on quantum mechanics.

Eugen was a wonderful and positive influence on the University and Chapel Hill, and me, as a young faculty member interested in theory. When our son took a course in physics (on his way to becoming a crystallographer) he came home to dinner one day, and described how he had met this most fantastic person who was working at the physics help desk that day--of course, it was Eugen.

You never died, professor. You live forever in our textbooks and in our minds. Eternal rest grant unto you.

My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.