Birth date: Jul 7, 1922 Death date: Oct 26, 2012
Dr. Jack Howard Taylor, 90, died on October 26, 2012. Dr. Taylor was a lifelong Memphian. He graduated from Southside High School in 1940 and Southwestern at Memphis in 1944, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Del Read Obituary
In the years since I was a student studying under the guidance of Dr. Jack Howard Taylor, I have never met anyone who enjoyed his job as much as Dr. Taylor enjoyed being a professor of physics at Southwestern at Memphis. His energy and enthusiasm showe
Dr. Taylor was my most-thorough physics teacher. He made physics interesting, almost mesmerizing. I can still hear his voice saying, “…supershauntly small”, when referring to particles. Part of his teaching movitated me to later become a mathematicia
To the Family of Dr. Jack Taylor So sorry to read of Dr. Taylor’s passing from this life. May your memories of happy times together comfort you. My prayers are with you.Sincerely, Karen Francis
It is hard to know where to start in my comments about Jack Taylor. I have known him as my teacher, mentor, friend and a man who took it easy on me on the tennis court. When my dad died my sophomore year at, then, Southwestern at Memphis, Jack, in very su
As my major professor, mentor,and later boss for three years at Southwestern, Dr. Taylor greatly impacted my life. He was an outstanding demonstrator of physical principles. I want to express my condolences to his wife and family.
I will always remember my two semesters of physics with Dr. Taylor. He jokingly considered us junior math majors a lost cause, but we nevertheless loved the man and his lectures. “ASSAF! This is your chance to SHINE!” he would call out into the lecture
Though I was a philosophy major at Southwestern, I took physics with Dr. Taylor in 1968-69, and loved every minute of it. He instilled in me a deep appreciation of science.With heartfelt condolences,James Dobbins********************* James C.
It is with great sadness that I have learned of the passing of Dr. Taylor. He was a wonderful inspiration to me during my four years at Rhodes. I graduated with my B.S. in Physics (with Honors) in 1969. I remember the Introductory Physics class Dr. Tay
I graduated in physics at Southwestern in 1972, a student of Taylor, Stauffer, Barnhardt and Streete. All of them had a profound impact on me as a physicist, but it was Dr. Taylor who most shaped me as a physics teacher. I invoke his name or at least his
So sorry to hear of Dr. Taylor’s passing. I will never forget his physics classes at Southwestern (Rhodes) I was a freshman and one of the few women in his class in 1970. We saw many experiments that “few men and no women had ever seen before”. He was a t
