On Thursday, April 18, 2019, Paul Alan Martin, 63, of Albuquerque, NM, passed away after a 7.5-year battle with Glioblastoma (GBM) brain cancer. Paul was born in Dearborn, MI to James and Lee Martin on January 31st, 1956.
Paul graduated from Mayfield High School (1974) in Cleveland, OH, 4th out of a class of 550. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Massachusetts of Technology (MIT) (1978), and earned a PhD (EE & Physics) from the University of Illinois (1986). As part of the Electronics Lab [E-Lab) team at GE Aerospace, Syracuse, NY, he collaborated with scientists to communicate with Voyager's obsolete computers as it left our solar system. During his career, Paul researched and analyzed solar cells, lasers, cyber-attacks, semiconductors, hybrid vehicles, and radiation effects on satellites for Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin, Mississippi State University, L-3 Communications, Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) and others. While at MIT, he met Desmond Tutu in Boston and spoke to Stephen Hawking at an IEEE conference in California.
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