George Fix Obituary - mba

12 Mar 2002

Steve Hamburg found this and suggested that I forward it to the list.
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 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
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  of the Department of Mathematics at Carnegie-Mellon
University for 22 years
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  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
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  of  his students. George authored two books on
mathematics, 7 book chapters, and
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  almost 100 articles in scholarly journals. He served
as a technical
 consultant for many govermnental agencies and private industries, and was on the
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  editorial board of the Applied Mathematics Letters,
Computers & Mathematics with
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  Applications, and Numerical Methods for Partial
Diffential Equations. In September 2001 he
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  was > inducted as an honorary member in the Golden
Key International Honour
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  Society. He was a member of the American Mathematical
Society, the Society for
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  industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta
Pi, and the American Association for
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  the Advancement of Science. 
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  George was a master home brewer. He co-authored with
his
 wife Laurie four books on the chemistry of brewing science, and he authored
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  29 articles in brewing journals. He won numerous
awards and best-of-shows in
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  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
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  Brewers Association of America and the American
Society of Brewing Chemists. George
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  had a great passion for classical music, and a strong
devotion and love for his
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  and Laurie's many pets. George is survived by his
beloved wife Laurie, and by
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  his father, George J. Fix, Jr; two children, Mitchell
Fix and Paige Walker; two
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  sisters, Nancy Fix Anderson and Barbara Fix; and one
grandchild, Austin Fix.
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  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
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  flowers may be made the American Cancer Society, 154
Milestone Way, Greenville, SC,
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  29615.  Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home Central SC,
29630 864-639-2411