JOHN S. “JACK” McINTOSH

JOHN S. “JACK” McINTOSH, Foss Professor of Physics, Emeritus, died Dec. 13, 2015, at age 92. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Yale University, and came to Wesleyan in 1963. An expert on sauropod dinosaurs, as well as a physics professor and department chair at Wesleyan, he inspired countless students, colleagues, friends, and family. He is known for determining the correct skull of Apatosaurus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, and in 2010 was honored by having a newly discovered species named Abydosaurus mcintoshii. He flew reconnaissance in World War II before becoming a theoretical nuclear physicist whose lifelong avocation was paleontology. Survivors include a sister-in-law, four nieces, four nephews, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.