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Jonathan Townsend, Ph.D., emeritus professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, died on Monday, Nov. 29

By Susan Killenberg McGinn December 3, 2004

Jonathan Townsend, Ph.D., emeritus professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, died on Monday, Nov. 29, 2004. He was 82. The burial was private.

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