RICHARD STOTHERS

Today I checked old files with articles and discovered several of them which Richard B. Stothers kindly sent me about 2 decades ago. Being interested to read his following publications, so I looked for him in internet and discovered sad info about his death...
He was a rare type of a scientist with vast field of knowledge...
His name is already placed in the building of Science...

Richard, I am interviewing dr. alex filliplanko this evening and you came to mind. In researching your work I came across this. I will bring you up tonight when we do our interview. Rest in eternity my friend.

It's been over a year now, Richard. We still miss you.


Requiem for
Richard B. Stothers
Who Died
Sometime in June,
2011


What if you were a brilliant scientist
A polymath, or sorts,
A knower of all trees
in Central Park
And how many days, and inches
Of rain had watered them
And how many were lost
In the storms of '09?

And what if you died
When no one was looking,
alone in your apartment
With all that unfinished...

I haven't seen Dick since 1962 when I graduated from Princeton two years behind him. I have forgotten nothing and will always fondly remember the times we had together.
I have only just learned of his death, this April, almost a year later. I have always missed him and continue to do so here on the other side of the world. Syed Hamde Ali Princeton 1962

Dick Stothers was a friend and anchor in New York for almost 45 years. We miss his presence and remember him with love and friendship..

I treasure the times at the Stothers home whenever their Uncle Dick was present. His encyclopedic knowledge about... well, almost everything was breathtaking. And his generosity in sharing some of that knowledge was sincere, kind, never condescending, always with a smile. The odd dots he could connect were so original but made perfect sense as he put them before you so disarmingly simply. I will miss Richard very much.