Our colleague Noel Corngold passed away on January 23, 2022, at the age of 93, shortly after a stroke. He received his B.S. in physics and mathematics with honors from Columbia College, a part of Columbia University, in three years and then enrolled in the Ph.D. physics program at Harvard as a Whiting Fellow, where his predoctoral examination committee consisted of three future Nobel laureates. In 1954, he completed his Ph.D. experimental dissertation to measure the amount of magnetism of a neutron at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he was supervised by Norman Ramsey. Noel was proud that Richard Wilson, a member of his dissertation committee, said, "This doesn't read like a serious doctoral thesis. This reads like an article in the New Yorker." That comment reaffirmed to him that his writing was crisp, clear, and precise-probably the result of skills he acquired as city editor of the Columbia student newspaper. Henceforth, he resolved to do only theoretical physics.
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