ROBERT H. MELLEN ’41

ROBERT H. MELLEN, a physicist, died Jan. 11, 2003 at age 83. He was elected to Sigma Xi and received his degree with honors and with distinction in physics. A member of Sigma Chi, he received a doctorate from the University of Connecticut and was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. In 1980 he retired from the Naval Underwater Systems Center and at the time of his death was a physicist with Kildare in New London, Conn. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ellen Lockhart Mellen, two daughters, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and a sister.