Daniel S. Koltun *61

Daniel S. Koltun *61

Daniel Koltun, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Rochester and an important contributor to the field of nuclear physics, died April 9, 2014. He was 80.

Koltun graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in 1955. He then earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1961. He joined Rochester’s physics department in 1962, and taught there until he retired in 2004.

He was a theoretical physicist whose research interests and activities were largely focused on the study of nuclear structure. Long associated with the scientific program of the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, he also was a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University (1976 to 1977) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1985).

Koltun had been awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial   Fellowship. He was also a fellow of the American Physical Society.

He is survived by Judith, his wife of 57 years; two children; and four grandchildren. The University of Rochester’s flag was flown at half-staff in his memory.

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