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[fornadablog.blogspot.com], PASSINGS: Robert F. Christy, Big Jim Sullivan - Los Angeles Times
Robert F. Christy
Manhattan Project scientist,
former Caltech president
Robert F. Christy, 96, a physicist who was a key member of the Manhattan Project team that created the atomic bomb during World War II and who later held teaching and administrative posts at Caltech, died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Pasadena, the university announced.
Recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to join the hundreds of scientists working at Los Alamos, N.M., to build the nuclear bomb, Christy worked under Hans Bethe to help develop a trigger mechanism for the bomb sometimes called the Christy gadget. In the 1980s, he was part of the National Research Council's Committee on Dosimetry, which traveled to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to study the effects of the bombs' radiation.
Christy began teaching theoretical physics at Caltech in 1946. He served as faculty chair from 1969 to 1971, was academic vice president and provost from 1970 to 1980 and acting president of the university in 1977 and 1978, between the terms of Presidents Harold Brown and Marvin L. Goldberger. He took emeritus status in 1985.
Christy's specialties at Caltech were the application of theory to cosmic-ray experiments in particle physics and work in nuclear physics and astrophysics. According to the university, in the 1960s he studied pulsations in the brightness of RR Lyrae stars, which are used as yardsticks to measure cosmic distances.
Robert Frederick Christy was born May 14, 1916, in Vancouver, Canada. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia and his doctorate in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley, where he studied under Oppenheimer.
Christy taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and did research at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi before going to Los Alamos in 1943. While in New Mexico, he became a U.S. citizen.
Big Jim Sullivan
Popular studio
session guitarist
Big Jim Sullivan, 71, an acclaimed session guitarist who played on dozens of rock 'n' roll and pop hits in the 1960s and '70s, died Tuesday at his home in West Sussex, England, said his wife, Norma. He suffered from heart disease and diabetes.
Sullivan learned guitar as a teenager and turned professional when he was 16. He played with many of the biggest names in British pop at the height of the "Swinging London" era.
Along with Jimmy Page, who would later star in Led Zeppelin, Sullivan was one of the most in-demand session guitarists of his era. His website lists sessions with Tom Jones, Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many others. He claimed to have played on more than 1,000 singles that entered the British charts.
Sullivan, known for his mastery of a wide variety of styles, also toured with Tom Jones' band from 1969 to '74, playing in Las Vegas casino hotels and on television shows.
Times staff and wire reports
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