The William T. Doyle Plasma Physics Lab Dedicated

Professor Bill Doyle’s memory was honored this June with the dedication of the William T. Doyle Plasma Physics Lab in room 112 Wilder. Kristina Lynch announced the dedication during the Alumni Reception on June 19. Kristina notes that Bill was in the building every day from 1955 until long after his retirement. He took on the task of helping Kristin Frederick-Frost build the Plasma Physics lab from 2002-2006 and was instrumental in making the lab work. “Bill was the experimental wizard of the building, the one to go to if you needed to know how anything worked.”

The dedication was attended by Bill’s wife, Barbara, his son, Peter Doyle, Professor of Mathematics, Peter’s wife Martha Cochran (‘77), and their daughter Helen, a graduate student in the Earth Sciences Department. Others who shared fond memories of Bill included John Thorstensen, Ralph Gibson, Richard Kramer and Jim Slinkman. Kristina also read a heart-felt remembrance from Kristin Frederick-Frost. A plaque dedicating the lab to Bill’s memory will be placed over the door, a very fitting memorial to his dedication to the department.