PATRICK THADDEUS

In 2010, Pat sent me Bell´s last paper.This year his student, John Clauser won the Nobel Prize for measuring Bell´s inequalities. Sad that he didn´t live to see this. But we all know the depths of his insights (Sue Feingold)

My "Waiting Quartet" of Theater songs - describing my friendship with Patrick, from 1962 through 2012, is now complete. He is in the unique position of being a brilliant astrophysicist with a song-cycle written about him.

Being a Composer, I have written a song-cycle about Pat Thaddeus - The Waiting Trilogy - one more to come

I was talking about Professor Thaddeus today (to a friend just arrived in Cambridge) as not only one of the greatest teachers and mentors I'd ever had but a captivating storyteller who could wield metaphors (often drawn from the kitchen) to make his ever-better-mapped realm of astrochemistry accessible to all..... He was a rhetorician, he would say nothing except of real value, and he was real mensch. I am so sorry to hear, especially so long after the fact, of his passing, but heartened that...

Pat & I knew each other in 1962. When we parted, he gave me a book, which he inscribed, and which I still possess. His brilliance was like a bright light in the cosmos which he explored.

This lovely and brilliant man will be long remembered by those whose life he touched.