JOHN DAVID EWBANK, PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, DIES AT AGE 54
John David Ewbank, professor of chemistry, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2002, at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville.
He was born Dec. 23, 1947, in Garnett, Kan. He earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Arkansas in 1974, and returned to join the faculty in 1987. He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1996.
Ewbank was best known for building the first real time non-photographic electron diffraction instrument, which proved to be key in the research of future Nobel Prize winners.
This year he was serving as freshman undergraduate advisor, and chair of the Student Awards Committee. He was a member of Sigma Xi, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, at Moore’s Chapel in Fayetteville.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Fayetteville Parks and Recreation Tennis Fund, 113 W. Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Ark., 72701.
A memorial Web site has been created in his honor. Please see http://www.uark.edu/chemistry/eventsinfo/MemoryEwbank.htm
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