Obituary: Dr. Alfred “Al” J. Bersbach
PORTLAND - Dr. Alfred “Al” J. Bersbach, 75, a physicist, engineer, technology expert, peace activist, and musician, died on Dec. 12, ...
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Dr. Alfred “Al” J. Bersbach
PORTLAND – Dr. Alfred “Al” J. Bersbach, 75, a physicist, engineer, technology expert, peace activist, and musician, died on Dec. 12, 2020, after a brief stay at Maine Medical Center related to contracting COVID-19 at the memory care facility where he resided.
Born in Santa Monica, Calif. on July 12, 1945, the son of Ruth Loucks and Alfred Bersbach, Al was one of four boys in the Bersbach household. He graduated from The California Institute of Technology with a B.S. in 1967, and did his graduate work at Princeton University, where he earned a master’s degree in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree in 1974 in high energy physics.