Stephen W. Feldberg ’58 *62

Steve died June 11, 2024, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born in New York City July 22, 1937, he came to Princeton from Bath, N.Y. He majored in chemistry and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Howe award. He stayed on at Princeton to do graduate work, receiving a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1962. He went to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory that year and, except for brief stints as a visiting professor in universities around the world, stayed there until his retirement.

When Steve first arrived at Brookhaven, the lab’s IBM 7090 computer was one of the fastest in the world, and he began to use it to simulate various problems in electrochemistry. He went on to develop commercial software to study electrochemical reactions. In 1992, he won the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry’s Charles N. Reilley Award, and in 1998 won the American Chemical Society’s Electrochemistry Award. Steve’s major contributions to his field, according to the Brookhaven Bulletin, include “basic and applied research in the theory and computer simulation of electrochemical phenomena, processes in which electrons are transferred from one material in a system to another, such as from metal to a solution in a battery.”

Steve loved to sail his boat on Long Island Sound; to ski in Alta, Utah; to go fly fishing in New Zealand; and to play tennis, cribbage, and the guitar. He was notorious for his jokes and terrible puns, for his dislike of neckties and well-done steak, and for his love of hot dogs, popcorn, and ginger ale.

He is survived by many cousins and colleague-friends all over the world.