Bruce Walter Shore

Bruce Walter Shore died Jan. 9. He was 85.

Shore was born Feb. 27, 1935, in Visalia, and graduated from East Bakersfield High School in 1952. He graduated from the College of the Pacific in 1956 and earned a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960 with a thesis in nuclear chemistry. Shore worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1971 until his retirement in 2001. He also served on the faculty of Harvard College Observatory, Kansas State University and Imperial College in London.

In 1997, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt prize and worked for a year at Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. He returned to Technical University of Darmstadt annually through 2019 to present papers and participate in seminars in quantum optics. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He authored numerous scientific papers and six books in his field, the most recent of which, “Our Changing Views on Photons,” was published in 2020.

He is survived by his wife, Randi; children, Tim, Hilary, Hans, Leif and Derek; brother, Dick; sister, Betty; and nine grandchildren, with another on the way.

A celebration of his life will be held in Livermore when circumstances permit. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to University of the Pacific, Attn: Advancement Services, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA, 95211.