To the UCBNE Community:

It is with sadness that we announce the death of an esteemed and distinguished faculty member of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Professor Virgil E. Schrock on October 1, 2007. Schrock taught reactor thermal hydraulics, boiling heat transfer and two phase flow initially in the Department of Mechanical Engineering starting in 1948, and then in the Department of Nuclear Engineering from its creation in 1958 until his retirement in 1991. In this role he made fundamental advances in our understanding of boiling and two-phase flow.

Virgil Schrock's service to the professions of nuclear and mechanical engineering was exceptional. He was elected as a fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society, having chaired several national committees for these societies, and received numerous honors, including the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, ASME Heat Transfer Division 50th Anniversary Award, and multiple best paper awards. Virgil played a major role in launching the careers of his students and in mentoring of junior colleagues. He will be missed. We are also preparing a Department of Nuclear Engineering obituary to be sent out shortly. We will pass on funeral service information as soon as we get it from his family.