In Memoriam – George Holzwarth (1937-2024)

Professor George Holzwarth passed away on March 13, 2024. George joined the physics faculty of Wake Forest University in August 1983. While he officially retired in 2004, he remained active in his biophysics research to the very end.  Before joining WFU, George earned a BS  degree in physics from Wesleyan University in 1959 and a Ph. D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1964. He served as a faculty member at the University of Chicago 1967-1974 and on the Research staff at Exxon Corporate Research 1974-1983. Throughout his long career, George enjoyed finding ways in which physics concepts and methods can be used to address interesting and challenging biological questions. George would have been very happy to learn that his last paper, “Directional change during active diffusion of viral ribonucleoprotein particles through cytoplasm ” in collaboration with his students, Doug Lyles from the medical school, and others has now been published. The family is arranging for an annual biophysics colloquium as part of the physics colloquium program in George’s honor.

More information about George and his life is available here.