Robert W. Detenbeck *62

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Robert Detenbeck, retired professor of physics at the University of Vermont, died Aug. 8, 2013, at the age of 80.

He received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1954, and earned a Ph.D., also in physics, from Princeton in 1962.

Detenbeck’s research field was experimental physics, which he pursued at the University of Maryland for eight years, and then at the University of Vermont until he retired in 1995.

Detenbeck greatly loved teaching, and this was recognized with a teaching award from Maryland, and, in 1995, with the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award from Vermont.

He is survived by Jeanne, his wife of 59 years; two daughters; and two grandchildren.

Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.

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