The Canisius College community and the Department of Quantitative Sciences mourns the passing of Daniel Dempsey ‘52, PhD. Dan was the embodiment of what it means to be a Griffin. Graduating with a degree in physics, he went on to earn his PhD from the University of Notre Dame.
After his graduate work, Dan returned to Canisius and rejoined the Physics Department as a faculty member and instructor. He taught physics at the college for 51 years (over a third of as long as the college has been in existence). As Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. Thank you, Dan, for being a giant to so many Canisius physicists.
The full obituary can be found here – https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/buffalonews/name/daniel-dempsey-obituary?id=6330095
Submitted by: Michael Wood, professor of physics, Department of Quantitative Sciences
