(Professor) Calvin Hayden Wilcox died on Thursday June 7, 2001.
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was born in Cicero, New York on January 29, 1924, the son of Calvin and Vara Place Wilcox. A graduate of Minoa High School, Minoa, New York, he received his B.A. from Harvard College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He was married on May 29, 1947 to Frances Rosekrans.
During forty years of teaching and research, he held positions at the California Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Wisconsin, Arizona, Denver and Utah, where he has been Professor Emeritus since 1996. also, he received invitations for lengthy visits to the Universities of Geneva, Switzerland; Stuttgart and Bonn, Germany; Liege, Belgium; an Kyoto, Japan. We wrote once that interaction with other scientists wherever he worked was one of the greatest satisfactions of his life. He also served as a consultant to Lockheed Corporation in Van Nuys, California, the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, and General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York.
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published more than sixty research papers, several monographs, and with colleague Grant Gustaafson, a textbook Advanced Engineering Mathematics, published in 1998.
He is survived by his wife, children, Annette Wilcox, Salt Lake City; Victor Wilcox, Austin, Texas; Christopher (Joann) Wilcox, Fort Collins, Colorado, seven grandchildren, the oldest of whom serves with the Peace Corps in Malawi, Central Africa, a sister, Grace Wilcox, and brother, Roland (Mary Lou) of Syracuse, New York.
A Memorial Service will be held in the First Unitarian Church, 569 S. 1300 E. at 4 p.m. on Monday June 11. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a contribution to the Calvin H. Wilcox Scholarship Fund in the Department of Mathematics, University of Utah.
We express our appreciation to Dr. Carole Baraldi and her staff at Wasatch Valley Rehabilitation for their excellent and compassionate care.