Theoretical Physicist Brosl Hasslacher died Nov. 11, 2005. He was 64.

Hasslacher was born in New York City in 1941. He received his bachelor’s in physics from Harvard University in 1962 and went on to earn his doctorate in physics from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1971.

He held fellowship and research positions at the University of Illinois, California Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and several institutes in France and Switzerland before moving to Los Alamos in 1981 as a visiting scientist at the Center for Nonlinear Studies.

In October 1982, Hasslacher became a staff member in Theoretical (T) Division where he was involved in theoretical, experimental, and numerical work in high-energy physics. He went on to found the Institute for Physical Sciences at Los Alamos in 1994. He took a leave of absence in 1999 to help found the Molecular Electronics Corporation. Hasslacher retired from the Lab in 2003.

His diverse research touched upon a variety of topics, including field theory, quantum gravity and black holes. He also published papers on lattice-gas hydrodynamics, robotics and biochemistry. Most recently, Hasslacher had been working on theories of surfacenano-plasmonics and Hawking radiation from black holes.

He is survived by his daughter Elisabeth and his two sons Davi and Manuel.

(Information taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and the Los Alamos Newsletter Vol. 7. No. 2)

Other Conferences Dedicated to Brosl's Memory:

http://www.obs-nice.fr/etc7/ncp06/brosl.html

http://dsfd-06.unige.ch/