In Memory of Robert Satten

For almost two decades Robert Satten dedicated his extraordinary career to UCLA's physics department, serving eight years as its vice chairman and devoting two sabbaticals to research under Fulbright Research Fellowships. In September 2001, in his 79th year, he passed away. His life's work was devoted primarily to low temperature spectroscopy, studying the elctrical properties of rare earth and uranium ions in crystals and the interaction of those ions with latice vibration of the cyrstals. During his career he developed a new optical method for directing microwave paramagnetic resonance and relaxation, and participated in the project that produced the first laser.