WILLIAM A. KOLDEWYN PHD’76

WILLIAM A. KOLDEWYN PHD’76, a physicist and engineer in the aerospace industry, died Nov. 5, 2016, at age 74. He was an alumnus of Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and received his PhD from Wesleyan in 1976. As a physicist and engineer, he worked on projects that contributed to ground-breaking scientific discoveries, such as the Advanced Camera for Surveys for the Hubble space telescope. After his retirement he worked as a consultant, reading and assessing proposals for NASA. He taught physics as an adjunct professor at Dixie State University. Passionate about science, he also was an accomplished organist. His wife, Katherine Koldewyn, survives, as do two children and a grandchild.