Paul Edward Condon *63

At the age of 90 and 17 days, Paul died in Lafayette, Colo., Jan. 4, 2023.

Paul was born Dec. 18, 1932, in Princeton, where his father, Edward Uhler Condon, was a professor of physics at the University. Paul earned his A.B. at Harvard in 1955 and his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton in 1963. Val Fitch was his dissertation adviser.

After completing his Ph.D., Paul did a postdoc at the University of Maryland, and then assumed a professorship at the University of California, Irvine, where he taught and did research until the late 1970s. At that time he transitioned to nonacademic work at various Silicon Valley companies and did military consulting. Later he used his knowledge of computers and programming to help a prime mortgage insurance company develop early neural network models to try to alleviate racial and socioeconomic discrimination in decision-making. He also used his programming skills to help build models for better understanding of environmental and ecological biodiversity.

Predeceased by his wife, Carol, Paul is survived by daughters Katherine, Francesca, and Rachel, and two granddaughters.

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