Community deaths
Community deaths Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Thomas McIlrath, physicist Dr. Thomas McIlrath, 82, a retired physicist who did early research in the use of lasers to explore the structure of atoms and ions while teaching at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Physical Science and Technology, died Dec. 20 at a hospital in Washington. The cause was end-stage Parkinson’s disease, said his daughter Christine Lehnigk. Dr. McIlrath’s scientific discovery of resonant laser ionization led to new insights into the energy levels in...
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