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Daniel C. Koblick
May 13, 1922 - February 2, 2009
Daniel Koblick was born in San Francisco on May 13th, 1922. He graduated
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944, served with the U.S.
Army Pacific Theater of Operations in 1944-45, and was an instructor in
natural sciences at what is now San Francisco State University in 1945-46.
He received a Ph.D from the University of Oregon in 1957, and was a visiting
assistant professor of biology there in 1957-58. In 1958-59 he was a
visiting assistant professor of zoology at the University of Missouri,
Columbia.
He then returned to Cal-Berkeley, where he was a U.S. Public Health
Service postdoctoral research fellow in 1959-60, a lecturer in physiology in
1960-61, and an assistant research physiologist from 1961 to 1963. In the
latter year he joined the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology as
an associate professor of life sciences, remaining there until his
retirement in 1991 and serving as a mentor to countless undergraduate and
graduate students. He was a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and a member of the American Physiological Society
and the Society of General Physiologists. Dr. Koblick contributed to the
American Journal of Physiology, the Journal of General Physiology, and
other scholarly publications.
While growing up in San Francisco Dr. Koblick studied piano and
conducting, and for a time he played the viola with the San Francisco Youth
Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the viola in the late 1970's, playing
with two important Chicago community orchestras: the Hyde Park Chamber
Orchestra and, for two decades, the University of Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. After retiring from IIT he earned a master's degree in musicology
from Roosevelt University and pursued advanced studies in that field at the
Sorbonne and the University of Chicago.
Dr. Koblick is survived by his wife, Joan Lesser Koblick, whom he married
in 1960; two daughters, Laurinda MacKinlay, of Portland, OR, and Rebecca
Koblick, of New York City; a grand-daughter, Sarah MacKinlay, of Portland;
and his siblings, David Koblick and Freda Koblick, both of San Francisco.
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