Richard L. Peskin *60

Richard Peskin, retired professor of engineering at Rutgers University, died July 12, 2015, after a long illness. He was 81.

Peskin earned a bachelor’s degree from MIT in 1956, and in 1960 received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Princeton. He was a faculty member in the mechanical and aerospace department at Rutgers for 38 years.

He made many contributions in turbulence, non-linear dynamics, and chaos. Peskin was a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence and parallel computing to symbolic computation, and numerical stimulation of fluid flows.

Peskin retired to Vermont in 1997. There he enjoyed the regular pursuit of two of his many interests, playing the cello and sledding with a small team of Siberian huskies.

Peskin is survived by his wife, Sandra Walther; two daughters; a stepson; and six grandchildren.

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