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I lost a dear friend and the world lost a remarkable scientist and engineer, whose diverse interests ranged from cosmology to the practical problems of vehicular traffic flow and control. All of his life Bob struggler!
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Bob entered the City College of New York in 1930 majoring in physics. He told me that there was an excellent student body at the City College in those days, inclucling many of the best students from the NewYork City high schools, who for economic reasons had little choice but to go to the free city colleges.
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Bob's publication record indicates a substantial interaction between them. In 1948 theyjointly published a paper predicting that there shouIcl be a low-temperature residual black body radiation pervading the universe.
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In 1981 Herman and Alper received the New York Academy of Sciences Award in Physical and Mathematical Sciences for their pioneering work in understanding the early phase of the Big Bang Universe. In 1993 they received the prestigious Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences.
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In 1990 he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award of the Operations Research Society's Transportation Science Section for his research on vehicular traffic science. Bob retired from General Motors in 1979 and accepted a position as a professor of civil engineering teaching in the transportation group of that department and as a professor in the Physics Department associated with the Statistical Mechanics Research Center.
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as the L.P. Gilven Professor of Civil Engineering.
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At sometime during his tenure at the General Motors Research Center, he decided to learn to play the cello and began taking lessons. What fascinated him was the bow.
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Only his instructor knows. Robert Herman was a multifaceted man deeply devoted to his family, to his friends, to his science, and to the betterment of the human condition.
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