Irving Kaufman, 85, died on July 14, 2010. He was born in Geinsheim, Germany. In 1938 he was sent to live with relatives in Nashville, Tennessee, before his parents perished in the Holocaust. A year earlier, they had sent his older brother to Israel. The two brothers stayed in close touch and met 25 years later in Jerusalem. Dr. Kaufman graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1945 with a Bachelors of Engineering. After several years of working in industry he was admitted to the graduate program in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1957 then moved Los Angeles, where he worked for Ramo-Wooldridge and Space Technology Laboratories. He wanted to get back into teaching and academic research and in the early ‘60s received a Fulbright Scholarship and spent a year as a visiting scientist at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, in Florence. In 1965 he began his career at ASU as Professor of Electrical Engineering, He was founding director of ASU’s Solid State Research Laboratory from 1968-1978. He retired from ASU in 1994. In 1973-74, he was awarded another Fulbright scholarship--a travel grant--that included another six months in Florence and six months as a visiting professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. From 1978-1980, he served as a liaison scientist with the U.S. Office of Naval Research based in London, and during that sabbatical he accomplished his dream of running the original marathon in Greece. In 1989 and 1991 he worked as a collaborating scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Kaufman was a Fellow of IEEE and received a leadership award from the Phoenix chapter in 1994. He received the  Distinguished Research Award from the ASU Graduate College in 1986-87 and was a member in several honorary societies. Dr. Kaufman is survived by his wife Ruby, three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.