Eugene R. MARSHALEK

7 JAN 1936 - 19 OCT 2009

• BIRTH: 7 JAN 1936, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
• DEATH: 19 OCT 2009, Hospice House, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 8 DEC 1962, Copenhagen, Denmark

1.  Frank MARSHALEK
2.  Thomas MARSHALEK

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[N23308] Prof. Eugene R. Marshalek
January 17, 1936 ~ October 19, 2009

Eugene R. Marshalek, 73, of South Bend, IN passed away at 11:30PM Monday, October 19, 2009 at Hospice House, South Bend. Dr. Marshalek was Professor Emeritus of the Physics Dept. at the University of Notre Dame where he taught for 37 years. He retired in 2002. He was born January 17, 1936 in Hollis, New York to Frank and Sophie (Weg) Marshalek. He graduated from Queens College, and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. and moved to South Bend in 1965 coming from New York. He did post-doctorate work at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark and Brookhaven National Laboratories in Long Island, NY, before settling in South Bend in 1965. On December 8, 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark, he was united in marriage to Sonja Lennhart. Along with his wife, Sonja Marshalek, he is survived by two sons, Thomas Marshalek and Frank Marshalek, both of Bloomington, IN, and a sister, Jeanette (Gilbert) Muirhead of Farmingdale, New York. Dr. Marshalek was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt Award.

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Eugene R. Marshalek, a native New Yorker (born in Brooklyn on 7 January 1936) earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from Queens College, Flushing, New York, in 1957. He received his doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1962. As a National Science Foundation fellow, he spent 1962-1963 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. This was followed by a research associate position at Brookhaven Laboratory in 1963-1965. His thesis research involved calculations treating collective vibrations in deformed nuclei microscopically for the first time. In 1965 Marshalek joined the physics department at the University of Notre Dame as an assistant professor. He became a full professor of Physics in 1978 and retired in 2002 as Professor Emeritus. The majority of Marshalek's research in nuclear physics was supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation. He was supported by the Atomic Energy Commission from 1965-1971, the National Science Foundation from 1971-1990, and by the Department of Energy from 1991 until retirement. While on sabbatical leaves from the University of Notre Dame Marshalek served as visiting professor in Münich and Copenhagen and as visiting physicist at the University of Washington, Seattle. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997 and was also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1985 he received a senior Alexander von Humboldt award, for which he was indebted to his colleague, Walter Greiner. Marshalek's main research specialty was theoretical nuclear physics, in particular, microscopic theories of collective motion. He was a prolific scientist, had a large number of scientific publications, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, and collaborated with several of his peers around the world on Boson expansion, nuclear wobbling motion, cranking model, theoretical research concerning heavy ion reaction and collision, and also on new nuclear structure questions. In the 1970s he was one of the outstanding nuclear structure theoreticians internationally. He was recognized for his pioneering contributions to the microscopic theory of nuclear collective motion, especially development of Boson mapping methods. He passed away in 2009.