Dr. Daniel Richard Grischkowsky died Sunday, June 26, 2022. He was 82 years old. Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 1, 2022 at the Stillwater First Presbyterian Church. Burial will precede the service at 9:00 a.m. at Fairlawn Cemetery. Strode Funeral Home and Cremation is in charge of the arrangements.
He was born on April 17, 1940, in St. Helens, Oregon. He grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Oregon State University in 1962. He received his PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1968. Thereafter he accepted a Physics Research position within the Physical Science Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 1993 he was recruited and accepted a chaired faculty position at Oklahoma State University, where his entire laboratory was moved from IBM to facilitate his ongoing research.
During his career he was honored with many awards for his achievements and discoveries and was the pioneer figure in his field of Terahertz. In 1985 the Wall Street Journal commended him for his developed method to generate light pulses as short as a few femtoseconds, using a laser and light compressor developed at IBM. The ultra-short light pulses served as a "strobelight," slowing or freezing the apparent motion of molecules, atoms and electrons so that their extremely rapid interactions could be studied in detail, that were important to the development of the ultra-fast computer components we have today. He was awarded the Boris Pregel Award for Applied Science and Technology (1985) by the New York Academy of Sciences, the R.W. Wood Prize from The Optical Society of America (OSA ) (1989) for development of the optical fiber optical pulse compressor, and the William F. Meggers Award from OSA (2003) for development and applications of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). Such THz-TDS spectrometers are now operating in more than 100 laboratories worldwide. Throughout his career he presented at many international symposiums and lectured at universities globally.
In his private life he served on several boards and was a generous benefactor to many organizations, inclusive of the Foundation of the Optical Society of America, Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy and the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater.
He married twice, first to Nancy Grischkowsky in 1960. In 1984 he married Frieda Grischkowsky with whom he is survived by their children, Timothy Daniel Grischkowsky, Daniela Genevieve Grischkowsky, both of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Stephanie Alyssa Grischkowsky, St. George, Utah, along with his father, Oscar Edward Grischkowsky, Corvallis, Oregon, and his brother, Thomas Dean Grischkowsky, New York, New York.
He was known for exquisite brilliance, kindness, authentic dry wit and uniquely charming sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by his family.
He was born on April 17, 1940, in St. Helens, Oregon. He grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Oregon State University in 1962. He received his PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1968. Thereafter he accepted a Physics Research position within the Physical Science Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 1993 he was recruited and accepted a chaired faculty position at Oklahoma State University, where his entire laboratory was moved from IBM to facilitate his ongoing research.
During his career he was honored with many awards for his achievements and discoveries and was the pioneer figure in his field of Terahertz. In 1985 the Wall Street Journal commended him for his developed method to generate light pulses as short as a few femtoseconds, using a laser and light compressor developed at IBM. The ultra-short light pulses served as a "strobelight," slowing or freezing the apparent motion of molecules, atoms and electrons so that their extremely rapid interactions could be studied in detail, that were important to the development of the ultra-fast computer components we have today. He was awarded the Boris Pregel Award for Applied Science and Technology (1985) by the New York Academy of Sciences, the R.W. Wood Prize from The Optical Society of America (OSA ) (1989) for development of the optical fiber optical pulse compressor, and the William F. Meggers Award from OSA (2003) for development and applications of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). Such THz-TDS spectrometers are now operating in more than 100 laboratories worldwide. Throughout his career he presented at many international symposiums and lectured at universities globally.
In his private life he served on several boards and was a generous benefactor to many organizations, inclusive of the Foundation of the Optical Society of America, Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy and the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater.
He married twice, first to Nancy Grischkowsky in 1960. In 1984 he married Frieda Grischkowsky with whom he is survived by their children, Timothy Daniel Grischkowsky, Daniela Genevieve Grischkowsky, both of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Stephanie Alyssa Grischkowsky, St. George, Utah, along with his father, Oscar Edward Grischkowsky, Corvallis, Oregon, and his brother, Thomas Dean Grischkowsky, New York, New York.
He was known for exquisite brilliance, kindness, authentic dry wit and uniquely charming sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by his family.
Dr. Daniel Richard Grischkowsky died Sunday, June 26, 2022. He was 82 years old. Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 1, 2022 at the Stillwater First Presbyterian Church. Burial will precede the service at 9:00 a.m. at Fairlawn Cemetery. Strode Funeral Home and Cremation is in charge of the arrangements.
He was born on April 17, 1940, in St. Helens, Oregon. He grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Oregon State University in 1962. He received his PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1968. Thereafter he accepted a Physics Research position within the Physical Science Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 1993 he was recruited and accepted a chaired faculty position at Oklahoma State University, where his entire laboratory was moved from IBM to facilitate his ongoing research.
During his career he was honored with many awards for his achievements and discoveries and was the pioneer figure in his field of Terahertz. In 1985 the Wall Street Journal commended him for his developed method to generate light pulses as short as a few femtoseconds, using a laser and light compressor developed at IBM. The ultra-short light pulses served as a "strobelight," slowing or freezing the apparent motion of molecules, atoms and electrons so that their extremely rapid interactions could be studied in detail, that were important to the development of the ultra-fast computer components we have today. He was awarded the Boris Pregel Award for Applied Science and Technology (1985) by the New York Academy of Sciences, the R.W. Wood Prize from The Optical Society of America (OSA ) (1989) for development of the optical fiber optical pulse compressor, and the William F. Meggers Award from OSA (2003) for development and applications of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). Such THz-TDS spectrometers are now operating in more than 100 laboratories worldwide. Throughout his career he presented at many international symposiums and lectured at universities globally.
In his private life he served on several boards and was a generous benefactor to many organizations, inclusive of the Foundation of the Optical Society of America, Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy and the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater.
He married twice, first to Nancy Grischkowsky in 1960. In 1984 he married Frieda Grischkowsky with whom he is survived by their children, Timothy Daniel Grischkowsky, Daniela Genevieve Grischkowsky, both of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Stephanie Alyssa Grischkowsky, St. George, Utah, along with his father, Oscar Edward Grischkowsky, Corvallis, Oregon, and his brother, Thomas Dean Grischkowsky, New York, New York.
He was known for exquisite brilliance, kindness, authentic dry wit and uniquely charming sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by his family.
He was born on April 17, 1940, in St. Helens, Oregon. He grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Oregon State University in 1962. He received his PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1968. Thereafter he accepted a Physics Research position within the Physical Science Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 1993 he was recruited and accepted a chaired faculty position at Oklahoma State University, where his entire laboratory was moved from IBM to facilitate his ongoing research.
During his career he was honored with many awards for his achievements and discoveries and was the pioneer figure in his field of Terahertz. In 1985 the Wall Street Journal commended him for his developed method to generate light pulses as short as a few femtoseconds, using a laser and light compressor developed at IBM. The ultra-short light pulses served as a "strobelight," slowing or freezing the apparent motion of molecules, atoms and electrons so that their extremely rapid interactions could be studied in detail, that were important to the development of the ultra-fast computer components we have today. He was awarded the Boris Pregel Award for Applied Science and Technology (1985) by the New York Academy of Sciences, the R.W. Wood Prize from The Optical Society of America (OSA ) (1989) for development of the optical fiber optical pulse compressor, and the William F. Meggers Award from OSA (2003) for development and applications of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). Such THz-TDS spectrometers are now operating in more than 100 laboratories worldwide. Throughout his career he presented at many international symposiums and lectured at universities globally.
In his private life he served on several boards and was a generous benefactor to many organizations, inclusive of the Foundation of the Optical Society of America, Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy and the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater.
He married twice, first to Nancy Grischkowsky in 1960. In 1984 he married Frieda Grischkowsky with whom he is survived by their children, Timothy Daniel Grischkowsky, Daniela Genevieve Grischkowsky, both of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Stephanie Alyssa Grischkowsky, St. George, Utah, along with his father, Oscar Edward Grischkowsky, Corvallis, Oregon, and his brother, Thomas Dean Grischkowsky, New York, New York.
He was known for exquisite brilliance, kindness, authentic dry wit and uniquely charming sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by his family.
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