With deep sadness, we inform the scientific community that Don Madison, Curator’s Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, passed away on May 14, 2022.
Don Harvey Madison was born in Pierre, South Dakota, on January 4, 1945. He married Lina Engel in 1966. The couple has two children, Lisa and Kristina, as well as six grandchildren. After graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. degree in mathematics from Sioux Falls College in 1967, Don was advised to study physics instead of mathematics and obtained his M.S. degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. degree in 1972, both from Florida State University under the supervision of W.N. Shelton. ...