Alan R. Clark *64

Alan Clark, retired staff senior physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, died Jan. 29, 2017, at the age of 78.

Clark earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford in 1960. In 1964, he earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton.

He was employed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California as a high-energy physicist for his entire career.

Clark was a fisherman, camper, skier, and gardener. In his later years, he engaged in bird watching and genealogy. On many trips to New England and the Midwest, he and his wife searched for their roots. They found Revolutionary War ancestors, and Clark became a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.

He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, whom he married in 1960; three children; and five grandchildren.

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