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	In Memoriam: Martin David Kruskal
		Professor Kruskal worked at Princeton University from 1951-1989, where he initially joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and was a member of both the Astrophysics and Mathematics Departments.
		His younger brother, Joseph Kruskal, is well known for Kruskal's Algorithm in computer science, the Kruskal Tree Theorem on well-quasi-orderings, and the formulation of Multidimensional Scaling.
		Martin Kruskal is survived by his wife of 56 years, Laura Kruskal; three children, Karen, Kerry and Clyde; and five grandchildren.
	www.math.rutgers.edu /kruskal (630 words)

	Martin Kruskal; study of waves helped lead to fiber optic field - The Boston Globe
		Kruskal's best-known advance came in the 1960s when he was able to use equations to explain a phenomenon first recorded in 1834 when Scottish scientist John Scott Russell noticed a bump of water traveling through a canal near Edinburgh.
		Kruskal's scholarship dealt largely with problems related to natural phenomena, but he was also interested in other areas of math.
		Kruskal, who was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1925, and educated at the University of Chicago and New York University, was from a math-inclined family.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/01/06/martin_kruskal_study_of_waves_helped_lead_to_fiber_optic_field?mode=PF (698 words)

	Martin D. Kruskal Dies; Mathematician Was 81 - New York Times
		Martin D. Kruskal, a mathematician whose wide-ranging research touched on astrophysics, nuclear fusion and the soliton, a unique form of wave that he helped describe in the 1960s, died Dec. 26 in Princeton, N.J. He was 81.
		Working on a phenomenon that had been observed in the 19th century, Dr. Kruskal and a fellow researcher, Norman J. Zabusky, studied the behavior of a nonlinear wave that is able to pass through an opposing wave of the same type without affecting the energy or direction of either wave.
		Earlier, Dr. Kruskal, who was affiliated with Princeton University from 1951 to 1989, worked on a classified project to develop a process for controlled nuclear fusion in a Princeton laboratory.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/01/13/obituaries/13kruskal.html?ex=1326344400&en=8357b31a10c56f61&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (637 words)

	Martin Kruskal, 81, Mathematician Plumbed Infinities - January 9, 2007 - The New York Sun
		Martin David Kruskal, a mathematician whose work on the properties of an unusual kind of waves helped pave the way for fiber optic technology, on December 26 at 81.
		Kruskal died in Princeton, where he spent 38 years on the university faculty before moving to Rutgers University in 1989.
		Kruskal's best-known advance came in the 1960s when he was able to use equations to explain solitons, waves that pass through each other without deformations.
	www.nysun.com /article/46291 (335 words)

	Princeton University - Martin Kruskal, pre-eminent mathematician, dies at age 81
		Martin Kruskal, one of the world's pre-eminent applied mathematicians and mathematical physicists, died Dec. 26 in Princeton at age 81.
		"Martin Kruskal was an outstanding scientist and mathematician who will be remembered for many seminal contributions; he was also an exceptionally generous, friendly and accessible man, whose passing will be mourned by many friends, collaborators and students worldwide," said Ingrid Daubechies, the William R. Kenan Jr.
		Kruskal and his colleagues also devised an ingenious method to solve the equations underlying solitons, later called the Inverse Scattering Transform (IST), which has had a profound influence on both pure and applied mathematics.
	www.princeton.edu /main/news/archive/S16/79/27A47/index.xml?section=topstories (874 words)

	soliton
		He observed that when a canal boat stopped, its bow wave continued onward as a well-defined elevation of the water at constant speed.
		(Another account says Scott Russell observed it on the Glasgow and Ardrossan Canal when a horse bolted with a light canal boat in tow.) The phenomenon was largely forgotten until the 1960s, when the American physicist Martin Kruskal rediscovered it and called it a soliton wave.
		On Jul. 12, 1995, a viaduct at Hermiston was renamed the John Scott Russell viaduct, with Kruskal unveiling plaques and attempting to recreate a soliton wave.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/soliton.html (333 words)

	Computational Complexity: MARTIN DAVID KRUSKAL MEMORIAL (Part I)
		Martin David Kruskal was a brilliant Mathematician who passed away in late December, at the age of 81.
		The memorial for Martin (Feb 11, 2007) was unusual.
		Lay people (she's a lawyer) do not realize just have vast mathematics is. To her, Clyde who works on parallel computation, and Martin, who works on the mathematics of soliton waves, both do math, and hence understand each others work.
	weblog.fortnow.com /2007/02/martin-david-kruskal-memorial-part-i.html (560 words)

	Computational Complexity: Graduate Student Guide
		Blog created and written until March 2007 by Lance Fortnow.
		MARTIN DAVID MEMORIAL (Part II- by Clyde Kruskal)
		READING PAPERS FOR FUN Bill Gasarch guest blo...
	weblog.fortnow.com /2007/02/graduate-student-guide.html (115 words)

	Rutgers University Mathematics Department
		Undergrad Prize Exams -- Wednesday, March 29, 2006
		Kruskal awarded Maxwell Prize for 2003 by ICIAM -->
		Conference in honor of 90th Birthday of I.M. Gelfand Rutgers Conference to honor Francois Treves
	math.rutgers.edu (234 words)

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