Herbert A. Mehlhorn ’56 PhD

Herbert A. Mehlhorn ’56 PhD, of Portland, Me., formerly of Lexington, Mass.; Oct. 10. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he ​received a PhD in physics from Brown and began working at Schlumberger-Doll Research Center (Conn.). He married and started a family as his career led them to Lexington and to a long tenure at Raytheon’s Missile Systems Division, where he managed programs that developed critical systems for the U.S. Department of Defense. He applied for and received multiple patents in the area of optical physics. He retired in 1990 and enjoyed traveling the globe with his wife before her passing, especially to South America and Germany. He is survived by two daughters, two sons, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and seven grandchildren.