Carlisle (Russ) Markishtum
May 6, 2026 - Carlisle (Russ) Markishtum died May 3, 2026. He was 72. Markishtum graduated from high school and immediately joined the U.S. Navy, proudly serving aboard the USS Oklahoma City during the Vietnam War. He started working at Lawrence Livermore…
Shirley Calvert
May 5, 2026 - Shirley Calvert died April 29, 2026. She was 87. Calvert was born on April 18, 1939, in Hayward, California. She graduated from Hayward High School in 1956. She began working at a young age, spending summers peeling apricots alongside her siblings and…
Ken Gregorich
May 4, 2026 - Ken Gregorich died March 17, 2026. He was 67. Gregorich was born on Oct. 21,1958. He studied chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, where he fell in love with superheavy element research, working under heavy-element pioneers Glenn Seaborg and…
Cherie Jo Patenaude
April 30, 2026 - Cherie Jo Patenaude (neé Coombes) died March 31, 2026. She was 85. She was born on July 11, 1940, to R.W. and Frances Coombes in Fort Worth, Texas. She showed an early aptitude for mathematics, and after attending Stephens College, went on to get a…
Deborah Dennison
April 24, 2026 - Deborah Dennison died Dec. 21, 2025. She was 60. She was born Aug. 4, 1965, in Chicago, Illinois to Eric Hohnwald and Karen (Jensen) Hohnwald. She grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and graduated from high school there. After acquiring a degree in business…
Harold (Hal) Whitlow
April 7, 2026 - Harold (Hal) Whitlow died March 2, 2026. He was 88. Whitlow joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1960 and first worked in the Pluto Program, the effort to develop a ram-jet engine, until the…
William Joseph Evans
March 30, 2026 - William Joseph Evans passed away Feb. 4, 2026. He was 60. Born in Chicago, Evans pursued physics with remarkable focus and curiosity from an early age. He earned his bachelor of science from the California Institute of Technology, graduating with…
Ninon Claire Cabrales
March 24, 2026 - Ninon Claire Cabrales died Oct. 29, 2021. She was 81. Born Ninon Claire Pelletier to the union of Howard Gaspar Pelletier and Emilie Claire Vignolo on March 19, 1940, in Modesto, California. She grew up in Turlock, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and…
James Howard Scofield
March 4, 2026 - James Howard Scofield died Nov. 24, 2025. He was 92. Scofield was born Oct. 10, 1933 in Gary, Indiana. He grew up on a farm in Portage Township, Indiana, where he graduated as valedictorian of his high school class. He went to Indiana University in…
Kenneth R. Boyden
March 3, 2026 - Kenneth R. Boyden died April 8, 2025. He was 79 years old. Born March 31, 1946 in Fresno, California, he graduated from California State University, Fresno where he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial technology. He served in active military…
Aldean John Fabyan
Feb. 25, 2026 - Aldean John Fabyan died Feb. 8, 2026. He was 77. Fabyan was born on Nov. 1, 1948, in Lodi, California, to Joseph and Louella, and was raised in Livermore. Fabyan joined the U.S. Navy in 1968 and served for four years. During this time, he spent one…
Dr. James (Jim) Francis Belak
Feb. 23, 2026 - Dr. James (Jim) Francis Belak died on Jan. 22, 2026. He was 68. He was born on Nov. 27, 1957, in Philadelphia, to Charles and Ann Belak. After graduating from Rutgers University with a double major in mathematics and physics, he moved to Fort Collins,…
Michael A. Revelli
Feb. 19, 2026 - Michael A. Revelli died Jan. 30, 2026. He was 76. Revelli was born on Oct. 24, 1949, in Oakland, California, to Charles Edward Revelli and Shirley Addie (Archambault) Revelli. He grew up in the Oakland hills and graduated from Skyline High School in…
Dino R. Ciarlo
Feb. 19, 2026 - Dino R. Ciarlo died Dec. 29, 2025. He was 87. Born in Niles, California, to Severino and Emilia (Armanini) Ciarlo, he was raised in Fremont and attended Alviso Elementary School and Washington High School, Class of 1956. He grew up working on his family…
Gary James Devine
Feb. 19, 2026 - Gary James Devine died Jan. 11, 2026. He was 86 years old. He was born on Feb. 18, 1939, in Oakland, California, to William James Devine and Frances Bernice Estey Devine. He proudly served in the United States Air Force from Jan. 3, 1958, to Jan. 2,…
Donna Leach
Feb. 19, 2026 - Donna Leach died Jan. 3, 2026, at the age of 80. She is survived by: her sons, Steve (Faith), John V. Leach (Christine), Stephen R. Leach (Faith) and Charles A. Leach (Katie); her grandchildren, Amie Piller (Ryan Joseph), Brent Leach, Katie Matott (JJ…
Richard (Dick) W. Lee
Feb. 18, 2026 - Richard W. (Dick) Lee was born in New York City and received his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He went on to earn his doctor of philosophy in physics from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1970. From 1970 to…
Sue (Allen) Escover
Feb. 11, 2026 - Sue (Allen) Escover died Jan. 24, 2026. She was 66. She was born on May 22, 1959. She graduated from Amador Valley High School in 1977 and later settled in Livermore in 1980. She devoted 35 years of her career to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
Robert A. "Bob" Condouris
Feb. 10, 2026 - Robert A. "Bob" Condouris died Oct. 29, 2025. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, he was the youngest of four brothers. He helped his immigrant father with his business selling hot dogs from a pushcart and acted as translator for his parents whenever English…
Malvin Howard Kalos
Feb. 10, 2026 - Malvin Howard Kalos died Nov. 17, 2025. He was 97. Born in New York City, Kalos attended Queens College before earning a doctor of philosophy in physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1952. He then pursued postdoctoral work at…
