Winston Malcolm Gottsch ’29

WIN DIED June 8, 1991. He had prepared at Pedddie. At Princeton he played freshman and scrub football and was a member of Elm Club. His roommates were Ev Hicks, Johnny Angus, and Mac McPherson. After Princeton he received an M.S. from CalTech and then a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Harvard. He taught successively at Rumford, St.Mark's and Exeter and coached football in addition. During the war, he was on the Harvard faculty as radar instructor and also worked in the M.I.T. radiation laboratory. He spent the years 195860 at Princeton in Project Matterhorn and then went to the Univ. of Delaware for three years. His specialties were nuclear weapons effects, sensing devices, and the uses of lasers and infrared. He became aresearch physicist at the Raytheon Corp., and his last academic assignment was as adjunct professor at the Univ. of South Florida.

He married Ruth Strong Bradley in our grad year, and she survives, together with their two chi Mrs. Patricia Kepner and Bradley. The Class e sincere sympathy to Win's family.

The Class of 1929