Thomas Haan
Thomas Patrick Haan, age 62, of Santa Fe, New Mexico passed peacefully Friday, December 4, 2020, at his home. Tom was born on June 28, 1958 in Luverne, Minnesota the son of John Henry and Catherine Jeanne (Follett) Haan. He attended South Tama County School in Tama, Iowa where he participated in football and wrestling. He later obtained his BS in Physics from Western Washington University.
Tom worked over twenty years in the radiation protection field, getting the opportunity to travel around the United States. Tom held many roles as a Radiation Protection Instructor, Health Physicist and Radiological Technician at various companies such as Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Power System Energy Services, and Bartlett Nuclear. Tom found his love for teaching while at Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, where he taught Radiation Protection. He continued his teaching of Health Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and was employed there at the time of his passin