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Christopher Fuchs

Gary was a great friend with a big heart. We got to know each other when I was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, from 1993 to 1996. Gary believed in me, and always thought I was doing important physics, though it was a completely new field without a name yet (now called quantum information theory) -- that helped me get through the many moments of self-doubt. Gary loved his nieces and talked about them often. In 1999 when I was working in Los Alamos, Gary drove up for a visit to see my wife and me and our one-year-old daughter Emma. Gary and I took Emma out for a walk in her carriage, and at some point she looked up at him and smiled. Gary became so happy. He would say, over and over, "She smiled at me. She smiled at me." In my last email from Gary in 2007, he still wrote, "I remember ... that your older daughter ... smiled for me when I visited Los Alamos." My family will always smile at the thought of Gary.
Thursday July 21, 2016 at 2:43 pm
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