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Richard George Brewer

Richard George Brewer passed away from cancer on 22 July 2012 in Palo Alto, California. A groundbreaker in the field of nonlinear laser spectroscopy, Dick was noted for his applications of advanced techniques in the study of various laser-induced steady-state and transient phenomena.