Dr.prof. Gerald Subak-Sharpe

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columbiapaper - Gerald E. Subak-Sharpe, professor emeritus at the City College of New York and a resident of New York City and New Concord, died peacefully in his sleep September 10. He was undergoing treatment for lymphoma, but died of heart failure. Dr. Subak-Sharpe, the son of Robert and Nelly Subak, was born June 15, 1925, in Vienna, Austria. He and his elder brother survived the Holocaust, thanks to the Kindertransport in which special trains took Jewish children from Nazi-occupied countries to safer havens. The Subak child refugees ended up in London, but were later evacuated to the countryside. At age 15, he worked in a screw factory and his brother was a farmhand. Eventually, they joined the British military; because the fate of their parents was unknown, they assumed the name of Sharpe. Dr. Subak-Sharpe was sent for officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he became a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, posted to the Sudan, and later to London where he worked with German prisoners. After the war, the brothers resumed their family name, becoming Subak-Sharpe.

Dr. Subak-Sharpe attended University College, London on a GI grant, earning a first class honors degree in electrical engineering. He emigrated to the United States in 1958 and was a researcher at the Bell Labs. He later obtained a doctorate degree from London University and in 1969 earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Columbia University. He embarked on his academic career at Manhattan College in New York and then CCNY, where he taught until age 80. Over the years, he published numerous scientific papers, co-authored a seminal textbook on network theory and microcircuits, lectured around the world, and was honored by his students as a favorite professor. In his younger years, Dr. Subak-Sharpe was an avid skier and mountain climber; ..Dr. Subak-Sharpe is survived by Genell (nee Jackson), his wife of almost 48 years; 3 children, David Subak-Sharpe of Hong Kong, Hope Subak-Kaspar of Prague and Dr. Sarah Subak-Krah of Yarmouth, Maine; 8 grandchildren; his brother, Dr. Herbert Subak-Sharpe of Glasgow, Scotland; 1 niece and 2 nephews..