Nathan Seeman, Nuclear Physicist, 86, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402402_5.html

Nathan Seeman Nuclear Physicist

Nathan Seeman, 86, a nuclear physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory from
the late 1940s to the 1980s, died March 2 [2010] at Inova Fairfax Hospital
of kidney and pulmonary failure.

Mr. Seeman, an Alexandria resident, worked on experimental research
involving high-energy particles and black holes.

Mr. Seeman was born in New York and graduated with a physics degree from
Brooklyn College. He received a master's degree in physics from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served in the Navy in the
Pacific during World War II, focused on radar, radio and other electronics.

He was a member of the Potomac Valley Skiers.

His first wife, Gloria Silbiger Seeman, died in 1973 after 25 years of
marriage.

His second marriage, to Marjorie Sunderlin Seeman, ended in divorce.

Survivors include two daughters from his first marriage, Leslie Seeman of
Bethesda and Carrie Seeman of Escondido, Calif.; two stepchildren, Tom
Sunderlin of Vienna and Jill Sunderlin of Abingdon, Va.; and five
grandchildren.

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Adam Bernstein