Physicist Bennett dies
William R. Bennett Jr., former Yale professor, master of Silliman College and groundbreaking physicist, died June 29 of esophageal cancer at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was 78.
“The human body is like a machine,” Bennett’s son William remembered his pragmatic father saying many years ago. “Parts wear out.”
Bennett was born January 30, 1930 in Jersey City, New Jersey to physicist William Bennett and Viola Schreiber.
