Eugene V. Weinstock ’50

Gene, an expert on safeguarding nuclear materials, died Oct. 8, 2014, in Lexington, Mass.

He graduated from Atlantic City (N.J.) High School and served a year in the Navy. He majored in physics, graduating with high honors and election to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.

After receiving a doctorate in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, Gene taught for a year in Puerto Rico. He then returned to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he had participated in a student program the summer after graduation.

He worked at Brookhaven for the rest of his 36-year career, first with the experimental Reactor Physics Division, and later with the Technical Support Organization for Nuclear Safeguards. From 1989 to 1991, he was assigned to the International Safeguards Project Office in Vienna as liaison officer to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency. In 2005, he moved from Long Island to Lexington, Mass., to be closer to family.

Gene’s interests included playing tennis, listening to classical music, reading The New York Times daily, and eating dark chocolate. He appreciated intellectual argument. One could not miss his sardonic humor.

Our condolences go to his wife, Beverly, whom he married in the fall of 1950; his children, Deborah, Judith, and Daniel; and nine grandchildren.