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Kendall memorial fund established

The family of Henry W. Kendall has established a fund to honor the memory of the late physics professor and Nobel laureate, who died on February 15 while scuba diving in Florida.

Donations may be mailed to The Henry Kendall Memorial Fund, MIT Rm 6-109, Department of Physics, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, Attention: Isabel Cunha-Vasconcelos.

People interested in attending or playing a role in a fall symposium celebrating the life of Professor Kendall may contact Ms. Cunha-Vasconcelos in the Department of Physics at isabelcv@mit.edu. They will be contacted when a date, site and time have been established.

A version of this article appeared in the March 10, 1999 issue of MIT Tech Talk (Volume 43, Number 22).

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