Ernst Zinner passed away on July 30th due to complications of mantle cell lymphoma, which he had battled for more than 19 years. Ernst was the Leonard Medalist in 1997 and a Fellow of the Society since 1988. He received a Diplom-Ingenieur (equivalent to an MS engineering degree) from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna in 1960 and earned a PhD at Washington University in 1972 in high-energy particle physics. More…