Irving N. Rabinowitz *57

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Irving N. Rabinowitz died Feb. 16, 2005, at the University Medical Center in Princeton. He was 76.

A resident of Princeton for 55 years, Irving earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University while working as a computer programmer at the Institute for Advanced Study. Subsequently, he headed the computer section of the Plasma Physics Laboratory and later directed the computer center at Princeton. He taught computer science at Rutgers from 1969 until his retirement in 1991.

He is survived by his wife, Sandra, two daughters, and two granddaughters.

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