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Willy Haeberli remembered as physicist, teacher, and museum supporter

University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Emeritus Willy Haeberli passed away October 4, 2021. He was 96. Born in Zurich, Switzerland on June 17, 1925, Haeberli received his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1952. He joined the faculty of UW–Madison in 1956, retiring in 2005. Haeberli was a world-class experimental nuclear physicist. His research …