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Suggested Citation:"Evanescent Professors ." National Academy of Engineering. 2011. Memorial Tributes: Volume 15. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13160.
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Evanescent Professors

Occasions like the recent one
Remind those who have come of age
That surely there will be a time
When they will move from center stage.

Just how a person leaves the stage
Is often difficult to say
Old soldiers, getting to that point,
They never die, they Fade Away.

Professors somehow do the same.
How it is done, you’ll hardly guess.
For those of us who deal with Waves,
We do not fade, we Evanesce.

Suggested Citation:"Evanescent Professors ." National Academy of Engineering. 2011. Memorial Tributes: Volume 15. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13160.
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This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased.

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