Obituaries

Isabelle Goldstein Lesogor, formerly of Randolph, was born on February 14, 1928 in Boston, MA and passed away on July 20, 2017. Isabelle worked hard to raise her four children. She is preceded in death by Lena and Harry Goldstein, her parents, and sisters, Esther and Sadie. Isabelle is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Allen and Melissa Lesogor of Carver, MA, Lawrence and Margaret Lesogor of Braintree, MA, Paul and Suzanne Lesogor of Whitman, MA, and Cary and Lisa Lesogor of East Bridgewater, MA. Isabelle is also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom she adored. She loved to share stories about them with pride and love in her heart. Service was held on Friday, July 21, 2017. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her honor to Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

On July 18, 2017. Beloved husband of Marjorie (Wolf) Wax. Devoted father of Anne, Steven and the late Carol Wax. Dad was a proud veteran of WWII.  He loved to help others and make them smile.                                                                                        Graveside service at Adath Jeshrun Cemetary, 350 Grove St., West Roxbury, on Sunday, July 23, 2017 at 11:00 am. Following the service a celebration of life will be held at West of Centre Restaurant, 1732 Centre St., West Roxbury, from 1-3 pm. Remembrances may be made to  the Jewish War Veterans, c/o George Marshall, 832 Dedham St., Newton Centre, MA 02459 or to a charity of your choice.

 On July 18, 2017. Beloved wife of Milton Weinstein. Devoted mother of Mark, Bob, and Andrew. Dear grandmother of Adam, Julianna, Jessye and Maya. Dear great-grandmother of Jonathan, Briana, Ryan, and Benjamin. Loving sister of Zelda Stein, Roberta Goldberg, and Sarah Jacobs. Service at Wilson Chapel, 234 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, on Friday, July 21, 2017 at 11:00 am. Following interment at B’Nai Brith Cemetery, Worcester, memorial observance will be at 4 Chestnut Lane, Bedford, through Friday sundown. Remembrances may be made to a charity of your choice.

On July 16, 2017. Age 88. Formerly of Worcester and Framingham.  Beloved wife of the late Bernard A. Goodman. Devoted mother of Joanne Samuels, David Goodman and his wife Jeanne M., and Jeffrey Goodman and his wife Ellen. Dear grandmother of Joseph, Charles, James and Julia. Great-grandmother of Daniel. Loving sister of the late Bert and Lester Chase. Graveside service at B’Nai Brith Cemetery, 55 St. Johns Road, Worcester, Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 11:00 am. Memorial observance at the home of Joanne Samuels, Thursday evening and Friday until 4:00 pm. Remembrances may be made to American Parkinson’s Disease Association, 72 E. Concord St., C-3, Boston,MA  02118.

Of Needham, on June 15, 2017. Beloved son of the late Harry and Esther (Kashick) Sadow. Loving brother of Joel Sadow, Sharon Samuels, and Lois Ross. Dear uncle of Barry Samuels, Jeff Samuels (Gayle), Lori Peljocich (Steven), Eric Sadow (Liz), Lisa Sadow Wollins, Greg Ross, and Nicole Lavelle (Brian). Also survived by many great-nieces and nephews. Graveside service at Independent Pride of Boston Cemetery, 776 Baker St., West Roxbury, Monday, July 17, 2017 at 11:00 am. Memorial observance at the home of Sharon Samuels on Monday after the service until 9 pm. Donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 300 5th Ave., Suite 6, Waltham, MA 02451.

Of Canton, formerly of Sharon, on July 14, 2017. Beloved husband of Ellen (Kaplan) Bieringer. Devoted father of Justin and Derek Bieringer. Dear brother of Ronald Bieringer (Nancy), Susan Bieringer, and Dale Covati (Luciano). Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Graveside service at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon, Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 11:45 am. Memorial observance at the Bieringer residence following the service until 9:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to MSPCA, 350 S. Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02130 or Disabled American Veterans, 616 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02145. www.davma.org

Marjorie B. Ross – of Weston, age 43, on July 13, 2017. Beloved wife of Peter E. Ross. Dear daughter of Susan and Leo R. Breitman. Devoted mother of Sam and Molly. Dear sister of Alan Breitman. Loving daughter-in-law of Elinor and Jeffrey Ross. Services at Temple Beth Elohim, 10 Bethel Road, Wellesley, on Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 1:00 pm. Following interment at Lindwood Memorial Park, Randolph, memorial observance will be at her residence until 8:00 pm Sunday and will continue on Monday and Tuesday 2-4 & 7-9 pm. In lieu of flowers remembrances may be made to WEEFC, 89 Wellesley St., Weston, MA 02493, University of Wisconsin Foundation, 1848 University Ave., Madison, WI 53726, CJP, 126 High St., Boston, MA 02110, or Beth Israel –Deaconess Medical Center, Development Office, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215.

Age 86, formerly of Newton and Wayland, MA, passed away peacefully at home on July 13, 2017. Born in Chelsea, MA in 1930, graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and proud Air Force Veteran. Devoted husband of Marcia Habelow. Loving father of Beth Habelow and Wendy Habelow and her husband Robert Weinstein. Cherished grandfather of Emily and David Weinstein. Predeceased by his brothers, Harold and Leslie Habelow.  Remembered lovingly by his sister and brother-in-law Marlene and Morton Brown and his many nieces and nephews. He will be remembered for his zest for life and his deep devotion to his family and friends. Service at the Chapel at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon, Monday, July 17, 2017 at 12:00 noon. Memorial observance will be at 14 Astra, Wayland through Wednesday, July 19, from 3:00-8:00 pm with services at 7:00 pm. Remembrances may be made to American Diabetes Association, PO Box 15829, Arlington, VA 22215 www.diabetes.org

Louis H. VanDernoot-Age 104,on July 12,2017,formerly of Southbridge,MA.Born in Malden, MA. Beloved husband of the late Ruth(Sax) VanDernoot. Devoted father of Richard VanDernoot and his wife Polly, and the late Edward VanDernoot and his surviving wife Carol. Dear grandfather of Joshua VanDernoot and his wife Kathleen, Nicole Hirsch and her husband Jared, and Kathy Hoover and her husband Jon Jacobson. Cherished great-grandfather of Brody and Kolby VanDernoot, Ty, Hunter and Lola Hirsch, Lauren, Katlyn and Carolyn Hoover, and the late Blake VanDernoot. Services and memorial observance private. In lieu of flowers remembrances may be made to Dana Farber Cancer Institute,P.O. Box 849168,Boston,MA 02284.

Emmanuel Moiseevich Lipmanov was born on October 17, 1924, in Zhitomir in the Republic of Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. Both his parents were teachers, and his father Moshe (Moisei Abramovich) made a successful career as a secondary school principal, and was decorated with the Order of Lenin as a prominent educator. At the beginning of the Second World War, at the end of June 1941, the family evacuated first to a small village near Stalingrad, and then to the South Asian republic of Kirghizstan. As a child in the 1920s, Emmanuel was afflicted with scarlet fever which caused a severe inflammatory process in his bones and joints. These ailments left him handicapped for life, with major deformities in his limbs and movement impairment.

Emmanuel Lipmanov graduated from high school with a Gold Medal, the highest honor in Soviet secondary education. In 1949, he graduated with highest honors from Leningrad (now, St. Petersburg) State University, with joint BS and MS in Physics. In 1951, he married Revekka Nachumovna Kaganovich, a native of Gorky (now, Nizhny Novgorod), Russia, who was a graduate of the University of Leningrad with a major in Classics and a minor in German. They had two children, son Boris born in 1952, and daughter Janna born in 1953.

In 1952, Lipmanov defended his PhD dissertation on “Radioactive phenomena in the decay of µ–meson.” While still a graduate student in Leningrad, Lipmanov started publishing innovative papers in the field of neutrino research. In 1952-56, he taught physics at the Novozybkov Teachers’ College, then from 1956 till 1970 at the Stalingrad (now, Volgograd) Pedagogical Institute. While there, he widely published in the leading periodicals in theoretical physics, and achieved particular prominence for the following three ideas he developed.

First, in 1959, he published a new classification of leptons containing two types of neutrino, electron neutrino and muon neutrino; he then proposed, simultaneously with Bruno Pontecorovo, a design of an experiment to differentiate the two neutrinos. The key presupposition of Lipmanov, that of the impossibility of interactions between the two types of neutrino, was successfully tested three years later at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator in the United States.

Second, in a series of papers published in 1961-64, Lipmanov first proposed the existence of a new type of heavy lepton. This hypothesis was supported by theoretical work of Y.B. Zeldovich and L.B. Okun. In 1975, this new particle named t-lepton (tau-lepton) was discovered experimentally at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in the US. For this discovery, Martin Pearl of Stanford University was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995. In his Nobel Lecture, he spoke of the pioneering work of Lipmanov and of his calculations of the main channel of t-lepton decay. Dr. Pearl cited Lipmanov’s work as a precursor to the discovery of t-lepton.

Lipmanov’s third fundamental idea was developed in his publications of 1967-68. It was a model of disrupted, but restored at high energies, left-right mirror symmetry of weak interactions in elementary particles. The symmetry disruption is due to the mass difference in vector bosons connected to the weak (V-A) and (V+A) currents. Since the early 21st century, such models based on left-right symmetry disruptions are considered as the most probable natural extension of the Standard Model of the electroweak interactions of elementary particles.

Lipmanov defended his second Doctoral Dissertation in 1965 at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. It was titled “Studies in the Theory of Weak Interactions of the Elementary Particles.” Following this dissertation, Lipmanov was awarded the lifetime rank of Professor of Theoretical Physics. In Volgograd, he started developing a school of thought in particle physics and raised a cohort of talented young scientists.

In 1970, Lipmanov moved to Yaroslavl, where he founded a department of Theoretical Physics at the newly established University of Yaroslavl. He became the department’s founding chair, and continued extensive research as well as teaching. Among his graduate students from Volgograd and Yaroslavl were several talented scientists who later became internationally recognized leaders in the field.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, due to increased anti-Semitism, Professor Lipmanov’s children emigrated from the Soviet Union, and as a result, Lipmanov was subjected to persecution and organized harassment. He was demoted from the chairmanship of his department but remained a rank-and-file professor until his retirement in 1987. In 1989, he and his wife emigrated from the Soviet Union in order to be near their children. They came to the US as refugees, and settled in Boston, MA where their daughter Janna, a neuroscientist at Brandeis University, and her family resided. Lipmanov never stopped working and published important papers in leading international journals as well as on the Internet as preprints. His latest ideas dealt with the search for formulas describing the neutrino masses. Overall, he had authored over 100 seminal papers in theoretical physics.

Years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Professor Lipmanov was finally recognized in his native country. The school of scientific thought in particle physics created by Professor Lipmanov was declared in 2003 as the best among the peripheral (not located in a capital city) scientific schools by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. In October 2004, to commemorate his 80th birthday, his former students organized a symposium in his honor at the University of Yaroslavl and published a Festschrift, “Leptons: Jubilee Collection of Articles devoted to the 80th Birthday of Professor E.M. Lipmanov.”

Emmanuel Lipmanov continued his work in theoretical physics into his nineties, till the very end, publishing his papers on the Internet preprint sites, and occasionally, in peer reviewed journals. His latest work was on electroweak interactions for neutrino mass ratios, and he started developing an insight into its’ cosmological implications.

Emmanuel Lipmanov was predeceased by his son Boris who died in 2014, and his wife Revekka who passed away in 2015. He is survived by his daughter Janna (and Edward) Kaplan of Newton MA, and their children: Emmanuel’s grandson Aaron Kaplan and Será Godfrey-Kaplan and her son Zeppelin Godfrey-Grantz of Newton MA; granddaughter Sima Kaplan of Philadelphia; and step-grandson Jeremy Kaplan with his wife Rebecca Ballantine and their children, Lhakyi, Eli, Dechen, Bella, and Cassie, of Brooklyn NY.