Obituaries

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.

Rosen- Edith (Shwom), born in Plymouth MA in 1920, passed away at home in Chicago, IL on July 7,2017. Beloved wife for 63 years of the late Samuel Rosen, Edith moved to Chicago in 2007 shortly after his passing. She continued her active lifestyle at Brookdale Senior Living, reading to children with WITS, singing in the Brookdale Chorus, baking brownies and strudel for her many new friends and exercising regularly. She is remembered as the loving mother of Paula Dahari and Janet (Larry) Eaton, and the proud grandmother of Daniel Ellis Dahari and Justin Ross (Dominique Sorresso) Eaton. Service in the Chapel at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham Street, Sharon, on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 12 Noon. Memorial contributions may be made to JourneyCare, www. journeycare.org/donate.

Checkoway- Norman, of Framingham, formerly of Haverhill, on July 7, 2017. Beloved husband of Barbara E. (Snider) Checkoway. Devoted father of Steven (Elisa), Nelson (Paula), and Martin (Donna). Dear grandfather of Emily, Michael, Laura, Spencer, Eva, Daniel and the late Chloe. Loving Brother of Naftali. Graveside service at Children of Israel Cemetery, 324 Middle Road, Haverhill, on Monday, July 10, 2017 at 11 am. Memorial observance will be at his residence from 6-9 pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Remembrances may be made to Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., 1811 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.

Gerstl- Jeffrey D., of Franklin, formerly of Framingham and Hull, on July 3, 2017. Beloved husband of Sheila (Chonin) Gerstl. Dear son of the late Sam Gerstl and Ruth (Stein) Gerstl. Devoted father of Brian Gerstl and Robert Gerstl. Dear grandfather of Cody Gerstl. Loving brother of Mark Gerstl, Cindy Gerstl and her wife Julie Kern, and the late Paul Gerstl. Jeff was a wonderful uncle, cousin and friend to all who loved him. Graveside service at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon, on Friday, July 7, 2017 at 12:45 pm. Please gather at the rear of the Administration Building. Memorial observance will be at his late residence throughout the weekend. Remembrances may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 330 Congress St., Boston,MA  02110.

Michael K. Lillian-of Brighton, on July 4, 2017.Beloved companion of Cynthia Segal. Dear brother of Joel Lillian and his wife Hoa Tran, and Joy Niedzwiecki and her late husband Thomas. Dear uncle of Sarah Niedzwiecki. Service is private. In lieu of flowers remembrances may be made to Temple Sinai, 50 Sewall Ave., Brookline,MA 02446.

Age 96, of Brookline, formerly of Chestnut Hill, on July 1, 2017. Beloved husband of the late Selma E. (Wolff) Scher. Devoted father of Melissa Scher, Bill Scher and his wife Debby, and Lauri Chmielewski and her husband Stephen. Loving grandfather of Arielle and Adam Scher and Matthew and Madeline Chmielewski. Dear brother of the late Max, Joseph, and Murray Scher, Sylvia Scharlat, and Ruth Wenger. Graveside service at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon (gather behind the administration building), Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 11:45 am. Memorial observance at the Chmielewski home on Wednesday and Thursday 5-8 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Hebrew Senior Life, Development Office, 1200 Centre St., Boston, MA 02131.

On June 30, 2017, Laura Feldman, M.D., of Boston and Vineyard Haven, previously of Brookline and Longmeadow, MA, after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, at age 70. Beloved wife of Bruce Kinch, devoted mother of Evan Feldman-Boshes, of Cambridge, and Erica Feldman-Boshes of Boston.

Dr. Feldman was born in New York City, and was a proud alumna of the High School of Music and Art. She graduated Cum Laude from Barnard College and earned a MS in Mathematics from Cornell University before receiving her M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Feldman did her residency in Interventional Radiology at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia, and her fellowship in Cardiovascular Radiology at Mass General. She continued her practice at MGH for 5 years before joining the University of Chicago Medical Center as Staff Radiologist. She was Chief of Cardiovascular Radiology at the Boston VA Medical Center for 6 years, subsequently Staff Radiologist at St. Elizabeth’s, Boston, and for 6 years Staff Radiologist at Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, NM. From 2010 to 2016, she was an Interventional Radiologist at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.

During her career, she held academic appointments at the University of Chicago, Tufts University, Boston University, and Harvard University. She was a Fellow, the Society for Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, and a past President of the New England Society for Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.

Dr. Feldman was a spirited woman who loved to travel, read ferociously, ate with rapture, and found happiness and contentment on her islands: Manhattan, Martha’s Vineyard, and St. John.  She was a passionate, lifelong advocate for women’s issues. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in her name to Planned Parenthood. Memorial Service will be held at Temple Israel, 477 Longwood Ave., Boston, on Friday, July 7,2017 at 10:00 am.Please park on the Riverway. Following the service a reception will be held at Temple Israel.