In Remembrance: Roger Stillman Bender ’36 Died on September 21 2013

Roger Stillman Bender, 98, passed away September 21, 2013. During World War II, he served with the MIT Radiation Laboratory developing radar in support of the Nation's military. After earning his doctorate from Harvard University, he taught and conducted research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the University of Pittsburgh. From 1957 to 1966, he helped design the Isochronous Cyclotron at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He conducted groundbreaking research on space radiation at the Commonwealth University of Virginia.

Full obituary published in Charleston Post & Courier on September 24, 2013.