Medicine's Dean and Regent. That same year he was appointed the first director of the Georgetown University Medical Center. Illness and death Father McNally developed symptomatic coronary artery disease in 1952, and had the first of several myocardial infarcts (heart attacks). He resigned his deanship and accepted the position of chairman of Georgetown's physics department. He was succeeded by Francis M. Forster. McNally died on March 4, 1955 at the age of 64, in the midst of a project to organize a graduate program in physics at Georgetown. The crater McNally on the Moon is named after him. See also List of Jesuit scientists List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics References 1890 births 1955 deaths 20th-century American Jesuits American astronomers American men's basketball coaches Boston College faculty Fordham University faculty Georgetown University faculty Boston College Eagles men's basketball coaches Catholic clergy scientists Scientists from Philadelphia People from Washington, D.C. Jesuit scientists