John Tompkins, a longtime Fermilab employee, died after a long illness. The obituary is posted here. John attended UCLA through undergraduate and graduate school and earned a PH.D. in Physics, specifically High Energy Physics. He worked in the Soviet Union as a part of the first scientific exchange between the US and USSR during the cold war in the 70’s; then worked at Stanford University for 12 years; was a core developer of the Super Conducting Super Collider Project and…
