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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With deep sadness, I have to inform you that
Stuart Freedman passed away suddenly <a
href="x-apple-data-detectors://0">on Friday night</a>. <br>
He had been attending a workshop on the neutron lifetime in Santa
Fe. <br>
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Stuart was a truly gifted scientist, with extraordinarily diverse
interests, and still very much at the height <br>
of his powers. I find it hard to believe that he is gone, but it
is somehow fitting that he spent his last few <br>
days with close friends, actively engaged in discussing new ways
to make a fundamental measurement <br>
requiring deep insight and ingenuity. We have lost a great
physicist, but I can't imagine that he would have <br>
wanted to leave us in any other way.<br>
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At this time, our thoughts are with Stuart's wife Joyce, his son
Paul, and all his immediate family, who have <br>
lost a devoted husband, brother, father and grandfather.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I will let you know as soon as any other
information becomes available. Please pass this sad news on to
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those at your institutions and others who knew Stuart.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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James <br>
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