My father was born in Brooklyn, NY to immigrant parents from Russia and Poland, and raised alongside his brother Ira and sisters Shirley & Miriam. My father fell in love with physics at age 8 after getting his hands on his sister's high school physics text book. He fell in love with his other life's passion -- jazz -- at the age of 12.
Dad earned a Doctorate in Particle Physics and was a professor in New York City for 10 years, before going into the private sector. (Please see below for the obituary published on the Optical Society of America's website.)
He was a passionate lifelong jazz fan and saxophone player, taking lessons from top jazz musicians, attending countless live jazz performances, and enjoying weekly meetings of the New Jersey Jazz Club for over 25 years -- where he would always make sure to play albums by his patron saint of jazz Stan Getz.
His first marriage produced me, his only daughter, with whom he had an enduring and incredibly strong bond and relationship. His second marriage gave him 29 years of love and happiness until the time of his passing. My father filled his life with great food, great music, great friends, strong family bonds, and trips to his self-proclaimed "spiritual home," Cape Cod, every summer. He had a deep appreciation for children, art, nature, and animals, and he had the best sense of humor and loved to tell a good joke!
He lived his life with a passionate curiosity, a very generous heart, and a kind soul that was always attuned to the mysteries and beauty of the universe, and to the welfare of those he loved deeply. He lived to be 81. A tragic illness took over the last 2 years of his life. But, I can say, and he did as well, that he had a long and good life.
Written by Laurin Ruby Stoler
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The Optical Society of America:
David Stoler, OSA Fellow Emeritus, passed away on 25 April 2018 at the age of 81. Stoler distinguished himself making many contributions to the field of theoretical quantum optics, with early work on photon antibunching.
Stoler did his undergraduate studies at the City College of New York and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Yeshiva University in New York City in 1966. After graduation, he was on the Physics faculty at Polytechnic Institute of New York in Brooklyn. He subsequently joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. Later in his career, he worked at Perkin-Elmer Corporation where he contributed to the project that repaired the flawed Hubble Space Telescope.
Stoler was an avid and accomplished jazz saxophonist his entire life and enjoyed it immensely.
He was survived by his companion of 29 years Susan Kaprov, daughter Laurin, brother Ira, and many nieces and nephews.
OSA and the scientific community mourns the loss of David Stoler.
https://www.optica.org/en-us/about/newsroom/obituaries/2018/david_stoler/
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David Stoler on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Stoler
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