{"id":5249,"date":"2016-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2016\/07\/03\/prof-jack-waggoner-passes-away-after-a-long-illness\/"},"modified":"2016-07-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T07:00:00","slug":"prof-jack-waggoner-passes-away-after-a-long-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/2016\/07\/03\/prof-jack-waggoner-passes-away-after-a-long-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Jack Waggoner passes away after a long illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"picture-096.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/picture-096.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for news: Prof. Jack Waggoner passes away after a long illness\" data-pic=\"picture-096.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Retired Professor Jack Holmes Waggoner died on the morning of 2 July 2016, according to a nurse at Pilgrim Place, where Waggoner resided following the 2013 death of his beloved wife Anne. He is survived by a brother who lives in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Jack was born in 1929 in Ohio and earned his doctorate in 1957 at the Ohio State University with a dissertation on molecular energy levels, <span>particularly infrared vibration-rotation bands. From 1959 to 1961 Jack taught at the University of Californbia, Riverside, and then joined the physics faculty at HMC in 1961 and taught many courses. He had a particular fondness for Theoretical Mechanics. Professor Waggoner retired in 1994, but remained a presence in the department for many years thereafter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jack enjoyed<\/span> target shooting and archery, collecting model cars, and reading biography and history.  He assembled an extensive personal library of books on many subjects. He built his own \u201a\u00c4\u00fahi-fi\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 system so that he could listen to classical music.  Jack&#8217;s wife Anne, who regularly attended department and college events with Jack, died in 2013.  They had no children.  Over the past few years, Jack suffered a series of strokes that left him largely incapacitated.  He is survived by his brother Chandler Waggoner, who lives in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Jack was a gentle, friendly man and an important part of the development of our physics program\u201a\u00c4\u00eehe will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Professor Jack Holmes Waggoner died on the morning of 2 July 2016, according to a nurse at Pilgrim Place, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}