Ned VanderVen, professor emeritus of physics at Carnegie Mellon University, died Aug. 24, 2018, at the age of 86.
VanderVen graduated from Harvard in 1955 and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1962. In 1961 he joined the physics faculty at Carnegie Mellon (then the Carnegie Institute of Technology).
He was an experimental physicist whose work focused on low-temperature solid-state physics and the physics of musical sound. He retired in 2000.
VanderVen had many interests, including music and athletics. A cyclist, he was president of the Allegheny Cycling Association. He enjoyed classical music, played the piano, and was on the board of the Renaissance and Baroque Society.
He is survived by his wife, Karen; and his twin children, Elizabeth and Edwin.
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