<div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I met Dan when I was an MIT undergraduate -- long before I knew of the existence of the LCTG</div><div><br></div><div>Dan also was sort of the Intellectual Grandfather to my brother Greg for his Ph.D. research "Magnetic Trapping and Cooling of Atomic Hydrogen" MIT 1987 </div><div><br></div><div>Dan founded the lab and pioneered the cooling process that my brother used for his work with Spin Polarized Hydrogen</div><div>see for example:</div><div><br></div><div>Magnetic Trapping of Spin-Polarized Atomic Hydrogen<br>Harald F. Hess, Greg P. Kochanski, John M. Doyle, Naoto Masuhara, Daniel Kleppner and Thomas J. Greytak<br>Copyright (c) 1987 The Japan Society of Applied Physics<br>Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 26, Number S3-1<br>Citation Harald F. Hess et al 1987 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 26 237<br>DOI 10.7567/JJAPS.26S3.237</div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>Evaporative Cooling of Spin-Polarized Atomic Hydrogen<br>Naoto Masuhara, John M. Doyle, Jon C. Sandberg, Daniel Kleppner, Thomas J. Greytak, Harald F. Hess and Greg P. Kochanski<br>Publisher website<br>21 August 1988<br>Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters<br>Vol. 61 (8) , 935-938<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.935">https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.935</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>“Temperature and magnetic field dependence of three-body recombination in spin polarized hydrogen;” </div><div>H. F. Hess, D. A. Bell, G. P. Kochanski, D. A. Kleppner, T. J. Greytak, 1984 Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1520–1523</div><div><br>and</div><div><br>“Observation of three-body recombination in spin-polarized hydrogen;” H. F. Hess,<br>D. A. Bell, G. P. Kochanski, R. W. Cline, D. A. Kleppner, T. J. Greytak, 1983<br>Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 483–486.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM Steve Isenberg via LCTG <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Sad news. He will be missed.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Bea Kleppner</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:bkleppner@gmail.com" target="_blank">bkleppner@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM<br>Subject: Dan Kleppner<br>To: Steve Isenberg <<a href="mailto:smisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">smisenberg@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear Steve,</span><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I am so sorry to write you the</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">sad news that my Dan unexpectedly died at Stanford hospital in California on June 16</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dan and I were in Palo Alto</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">to attend our grandson Darwin's high school graduation. </span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">On Father's Day Dan enjoyed his favorite meal in Sofie's pretty garden.</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">His last words were a toast to honor Darwin and the young generation who, he said, will be doing exciting new things.</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Then he collapsed. Despite CPR and ambulance to hospital, he did not regain consciousness.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A link to his obituary in the Washington Post is below. A </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">memorial will </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">be held probably at MiT. I will let you know.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There is solace in the long and happy life we had together and with his friends.He very much enjoyed his associattion with the Lexington computer and technology group. </span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">He enjoyed life and was optimistic to the end.</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sadly,</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Beatrice Kleppner</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br id="m_1939816872368294636m_1172947083281014899lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"></span><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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