Everett Gorin, a chemist who spent his entire career in coal research, died peacefully April 7, 2015, at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 104.
Born in New York City in 1910, he moved as a child to San Francisco in 1915 and was a Californian in spirit from then on. Gorin graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1931 and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton in 1934.
He had a successful career in coal research in Pittsburgh, developing 25 patents. He retired from the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. in 1976 and moved back to Marin County, Calif.
Gorin was a hiker, tennis player, and golfer throughout his life.
He is survived by Margaret, his wife of 63 years; two children; and four grandchildren.
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