"Courtenay Wright worked with some of the greatest military and scientific minds of his generation.

He was brilliant, dashing, funny and kind, according to his wife, crime novelist Sara Paretsky, who said the University of Chicago particle physicist died Thanksgiving morning in a Rush University Medical Center hospice. He was 95."

Read the rest of the article via the Chicago Sun Times, and read a touching tribute to Prof. Wright by his wife Sara via her blog.