Dr. Wernicke Obituary

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Rudolf G. Wernicke

Dr. Rudolf G. Wernicke, age 90, passed away

doing the work he loved on February 28th, 2009.

He was born in 1918 in Munich, Germany, and

achieved fame in the mathematic and scientific

communities for a paper written with early

computing pioneer Alan Turing. After a cloudy

history with the German war effort, he

emigrated to the United States in 1949 with a

visa from the State Department. Several decades

of government research in Los Almos led to New

Mexico, where Dr. Wernicke retired to pursue

landscape photography and care for his cats. He

came to Colorado shortly after the turn of the

millennium to pursue charitable work for the

Murkoff Corporation. A statement from the

company calls Dr. Wernicke "a true humanitarian

with a generous spirit." He leaves no

survivors."

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