He is survived by his wife Julia of 46 years, his son Michael, his daughter Annie Blank and her husband Andrew, 5 grandchildren Samuel and Claire Wangler and Marissa, Devin and Isaac Blank, his brother Frank and his wife Kim, his nephew Steve and Steve’s family, and nieces, Lynde and Jessica. He was preceded in death by his parents and his nephew, Tom Wangler. Tom died on November 20th in his home with family due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was an active member in the Catholic church and enjoyed singing in the choir for several years during his retirement. He enjoyed playing the banjo and singing for his grandchildren. He spent many an hour coaching soccer (a sport he never played and had to learn from books) and traveling with his wife and children. He lived for over 40 years in Los Alamos. He was an exemplary father to his children. He was also a sports fan cheering for his beloved Michigan State Spartans, as well as the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago Bears and the Houston Astros. He was known as a great traveling companion by co-workers because of his ability to find excellent restaurants in any city.
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He taught himself how to sail in graduate school, by getting in a boat during a sailing race and just following the other boats. He was also an outdoorsman trekking the mountains of New Mexico and a polymath with interests in world history, religions of the world, science and natural history, constantly reading to learn more about topics that interested him. He competed in the Boston Marathon in 2005 at the age of 68, and the Marine Corps Marathon in 2007 at the age of 70, as well as many other marathons, half-marathons and triathlons. Tom was an avid runner and enjoyed doing races. He was an excellent teacher and gained world-wide reputation for the accelerator physics courses he taught at various national and international universities such as Harvard University and Beijing University on behalf of the US Particle Accelerator School.Īpart from his voluminous number of publications, he is best known for his book titled “RF Linear Accelerators” (John-Wiley) that has become the standard text-book across the graduate schools around the world. Tom is internationally known and recognized for his pioneering work in and foundational contributions to the development of high brightness particle linear accelerators.
After joining Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1979, he devoted his entire career in the field of Accelerator Physics.
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Tom started his professional research career in high energy physics at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois where he worked from 1966 to 1979. in physics in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin.
degree in physics in 1958 from Michigan State University, followed by a Ph.D.
Thomas (Tom) Patrick Wangler was born Augin Bay City, Michigan to Frank and Florence Wangler.
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