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Paul Pogust Kisliuk
22 February 1922 - 05 November 2008
Aerospace Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
Submitted by Bill Kisliuk
Published on 01 December 2008
Physicist and aerospace engineer Paul Kisliuk passed away peacefully at his Los Angeles home Nov. 5, 2008. Paul was born Feb. 22, 1922, in Philadelphia. His family moved to Atlantic City, N.J., and eventually to New York, where he graduated from Jamaica High School and then earned his undergraduate degree from Queens College.
After three years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, he returned to New York and commenced to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1950. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at Bell Labs in New Jersey, specializing in maser research and microwave spectrography. In 1961 he left Bell Labs for Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, Ca. He spent 27 years at Aerospace as an engineer, retiring in 1988. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Joy, of West Los Angeles; four children; three grandchildren; and his brother Roy and family. Services were private. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to one of two nonprofit radio stations in Los Angeles, KUSC or KJAZZ.
Current comments and reminiscences on Paul Pogust Kisliuk:
Paul was unfailingly good humored, kind, reasonable and logical. He was so smart & knowledgable that it was common at large meetings to ask him to answer questions or arbitrate issues that no one else in the throng could manage. He would often look up from his crossword, tell us he knew little about the subject, give a detailed and perfectly structured improptu discussion of the matter at hand (unchallengeable by any of the hundreds present) and return to his crossword. He was a good soul, unique and irreplaceable.
Len Winner
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