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Nature 440, 162 (9 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440162a; Published online 8 March 2006

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Obituary: Richard Dalitz (1925–2006)

Graham Ross1

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Particle physicist and creator of the Dalitz plot.

Richard Henry Dalitz was a giant in the field of particle physics. A theorist who always endeavoured to work close to experiment, his contributions over 60 years shed vital light on the nature of the fundamental forces and the constituents of matter.

  1. Graham Ross is in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK.
    Email: g.ross@physics.ox.ac.uk

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