was focused on the church's Urban Outreach to area public housing and men's shelters, world peace and social justice. Professor Carr was known as a fine teacher and received a Guggenheim Fellowship where he participated in a cooperative research program at Cornell University, Oxford University in England and at the University of Amsterdam the Netherlands. In addition to numerous scientific publications Dr. Carr co-authored the introductory textbook Physics From the Ground Up published in 1971. In 2001 an anonymous donation created two Herman Y. Carr Scholarships in Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. Dr. Carr became Professor Emeritus in 1987 and was actively involved in the area of MRI studies up until his death. Herman Carr, 83, died peacefully on April 9, 2008 at his home in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. He was the husband of Hilda Hagen Kinney, who had died on August 29, 1986. Surviving are his children, Robert Carr and Amanda Carr-Sozer. Notes External links Carr Scholarship 1924 births 2008 deaths 20th-century American physicists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni People from Alliance, Ohio People from Bridgewater Township, New Jersey Rutgers University faculty American United Methodists Fellows of the American Physical Society 20th-century Methodists