Hans COURANT

One of the best professors I had at the University of Minnesota in the early 90's. Always willing to help. I'll never forget Professor Courant.

I will always remember Hans, in Feigères and 20 years later in Haute Savoie! His smile, his humour and tenderness! just like a second father for me!
+ his welcome in New York in 1966 for the little frenchy girl crossing the ocean ! With love, Simone

Hans Courant was an inspiration to anyone he interacted with. As a Physics major I was very fortunate to hear many of his stories. He has left a positive mark at the U of MN.

Hans was one of my favorite teachers and professors in my lifetime! I am SO very sad to hear about his passing! What a truly great guy! He was always interested in helping me out during his office hours, and I went often. I worked on the tail end of the Sudan Mind Project building detectors for Hans' project, and I worked on his collaborative project at Brookhaven National Laboratory, testing, building and installing detectors. I once had the pleasure of going to the Sudan mine with Hans and...

Talk about a life well-lived. He was on my Ph.D. preliminary orals committee, treated me very well during that rather stressful event. He was a really neat guy, into cars. He had a Mercedes 6.3 liter sedan, very quick car. He let me drive it once. These cars have four speed automatics but usually start out in 2nd as they have plenty of torque to get the car moving. At one stop sign he said floor it for as long as you dare. It lit those Michelins up for a long way! He also had a Citroen that...