Samuel Trevi¿o, Expert In Neutron Studies, 71
DGH
Samuel Trevi¿o; Expert in Neutron Studies
Samuel Francisco Trevi¿o, 71, a research scientist with the Department
of Defense for more than 40 years, died of cancer November 25 [2007]
at his home in Rockville [Maryland].
Dr. Trevi¿o worked for Picatinny Arsenal, which later became the U.S.
Army Armament Research and Development Center, in Dover, New Jersey,
from 1965 until 1996, when he transferred to the Army Research Lab in
Aberdeen, Maryland.
While working with the Army, Dr. Trevi¿o became an internationally
known expert in neutron scattering studies in the field of condensed
matter physics and materials science. He was stationed at neutron
research centers at the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts from 1964
until 1970 and then at what is now the National Institute of Standards
and Technology, in Gaithersburg, from 1970 until his retirement in
2005.
Dr. Trevi¿s research included experimental and theoretical studies of
explosive and metastable materials and other systems of direct
interest to the Army. He received the Army's highest science honor,
the Paul A. Siple Award, in 1970.
He loved teaching and working with young researchers, which led him to
take a part-time teaching position in the Physics Department at
Montgomery College in Rockville in 1991. He continued to teach until
his death.
Dr. Trevi¿o, who was known as Sam, was born in San Antonio [Texas] and
earned the highest Boy Scout honor of Eagle Scout. He graduated summa
cum laude from St. Mary's University in San Antonio in 1958. He
received a doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Notre
Dame in 1964.
He entered the Army in late 1963 and served two years in the Ordnance
Corps at the Watertown Arsenal, rising to the rank of captain. After
leaving the Army, he took a job as a research physicist at the
Picatinny Arsenal.
For many years, he worked with youth groups in Lexington,
Massachusetts, and at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Rockville
[Maryland].
He loved music and regularly attended opera and symphony performances
as well as jazz, blues and rock-and-roll concerts. The last concert he
attended was a Pink Floyd tribute show at the Strathmore. He also
loved literature, especially the works of the South American writer
Gabriel Garcia M¿rquez.
Survivors include his wife of almost 50 years, Juliette Gonzalez
Trevi¿o of Rockville; five children, Samuel A. Trevi¿o of Westminster,
Colorado, Leticia Trevi¿o Read of Takoma Park [Maryland], Jorge
Trevi¿o of Pasadena, Maryland., Felicitas Rendon of Portland, Maine,
and Magdalena Martella of Olney [Maryland]; a sister; two brothers;
and 11 grandchildren.
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Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122501344.html
DGH
Gee! I wonder how they spelled his name on his pay check and in the
telephone directory!