John Westcott Stewart ’48

Jack Stewart died June 20, 2007, at his Charlottesville, Va., home.

He was a local Princeton boy who spent his prep school days at Lawrenceville and lived at home for his first two undergraduate years. At that time Jack was not given to social activities. "Also, physics majors have little time for such," he said. He lived with his father, John Quincy Stewart '15, who taught astronomy at Princeton.

In April 1945 he went into the Army to serve with the Manhattan atomic bomb project at Los Alamos. He returned in 1946 to take up residence in 1903 Hall and win high honors in physics.

Jack went on to Harvard for a master's, and in 1954, earned his Ph.D. After postdoctoral research at the University of Virginia, he stayed on as a faculty member until his retirement in 1994. A sabbatical year was spent at the National Bureau of Standards at Boulder, Colo.

Jack and his wife, Anne, who predeceased him, had a daughter, Christine, who produced their five grandchildren. Jack is survived by his second wife, Deborah Scott. The class offers condolences to Deborah and Christine. We have lost a talented Princetonian and lifelong devotee of hiking in Virginia and New Hampshire.