Stadermann memorial service Oct. 8

A memorial service for Frank J. Stadermann, PhD, a senior research scientist in physics in Arts & Sciences and member of the Laboratory for Space Sciences, will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road, St. Louis.

Stadermann, who was 48, died Monday, Oct. 4, from a cerebral hemorrhage that occurred the previous evening.

Stadermann’s research focused on isotopic and trace-element analyses of extraterrestrial material. He was in the process of studying interstellar dust particles from a collector on NASA’s Stardust spacecraft when he died. His analysis of particles from comet Wild-2 from a second collector had been published in Science in 2006.

His wife, Christine Floss, PhD, a research associate professor of physics, often collaborated with him.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations in honor of Stadermann be
made to Habitat for Humanity St. Louis (www.habitatstl.org).

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