12 Mar
2002
12 Mar
'02
1:46 p.m.
Steve Hamburg found this and suggested that I forward it to the list.
Obituary from today's Dallas Morning News:
FIX DR. GEORGE J. FIX, III, Professor and Chairman of the Department
of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University, died at age 62 of cancer
at the Anderson Area Medical Center on Sunday, March 10. George was born
and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received a B.S. degree from Texas A&M
University, a M.S. degree from Rice University and a PhD from Harvard
University. Prior to his appointment at Clemson University, he was
Chairman
of the Department of Mathematics at Carnegie-Mellon
University for 22
years
and at the University of Texas at Arlington for 9
years. He also taught at
Harvard University, the University of Maryland, and the University of
Michigan.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. George's
life as an educator was distinguished by his great love for teaching and
for all
of his students. George authored two books on
mathematics, 7 book
chapters, and
almost 100 articles in scholarly journals. He served
as a technical
consultant for many govermnental agencies and private industries, and was
on the
editorial board of the Applied Mathematics Letters,
Computers &
Mathematics with
Applications, and Numerical Methods for Partial
Diffential Equations. In
September 2001 he
was > inducted as an honorary member in the Golden
Key International
Honour
Society. He was a member of the American Mathematical
Society, the Society
for
industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta
Pi, and the
American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
George was a master home brewer. He co-authored with
his
wife Laurie four books on the chemistry of brewing science, and he
authored
29 articles in brewing journals. He won numerous
awards and best-of-shows
in
home brewing competitions. He served on the editorial
board of Brewing
Techniques, and was a consultant for many breweries. He was a member of
the Master
Brewers Association of America and the American
Society of Brewing
Chemists. George
had a great passion for classical music, and a strong
devotion and love
for his
and Laurie's many pets. George is survived by his
beloved wife Laurie, and
by
his father, George J. Fix, Jr; two children, Mitchell
Fix and Paige
Walker; two
sisters, Nancy Fix Anderson and Barbara Fix; and one
grandchild, Austin
Fix.
The family will be receiving visitors on Wednesday,
March 13 from 2-4 p.m.
at the Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home in Central, South Carolina. In lieu
of
flowers may be made the American Cancer Society, 154
Milestone Way,
Greenville, SC,
29615. Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home Central SC,
29630 864-639-2411