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| | Record: George Pake, professor of science, provost, emeritus trustee, dies |
 | | George E. Pake, Ph.D., recipient of the National Medal of Science, professor of physics, University provost from 1962-1970, and emeritus trustee, died of heart failure Thursday, March 4, 2004, in Tucson, Ariz. He was 79. |
 | | Pake, an Ohio native, began his education as a mechanical engineering student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1942; he eventually changed his major to physics and earned both a bachelor's and master's degree in physics from there in 1945. |
 | | Pake's paper literally became a classic; between 1961 and 1981 alone it was cited 435 times in other scientists' work, earning his first professional publication a "Citation Classic" award, a rare and prestigious honor. |
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