Derek P. Hendry

Derek P. Hendry, a Lab retiree, died Sept. 3. He was 78.

Hendry was born in Rosyth, Scotland near the Firth of Forth on May 24, 1931. He attended the University of Edinburgh and received his doctorate in psychology from Yale University. He taught psychology at Durham University in England until 1964, when he returned to the United States to the Space Research Laboratory at the University of Maryland.

In 1965, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, Chicago as a founding member of one of the first bioengineering groups in the country. He then taught at Marquette University before moving to California in 1972, as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

In California, he moved from research and teaching to a variety of interests and finally retired as a technical editor and science writer at LLNL.

He is survived by his wife Louise; their daughter Linda; son Ian and his wife Jane; and grandchildren Alexander, Grant, Kelly, Olivia and Thomas.

A memorial service was held Sept. 8 in Berkeley.