Retired University Professor will be remembered

Originally published August 30, 2011 at 9:25 p.m., updated August 30, 2011 at 9:25 p.m.

Graveside service for Hillel Unz, a retired University professor, was held at B’nai Israel cemetery in Eudora on Sunday. Hillel Unz, 82, was a professor of electrical engineering for 40 years until his retirement in 1997. He passed away on Saturday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

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His son, Danny Unz, said his father was known at the University as a man with a sense of humor and an informal approach in the classroom. He held at least two patents through his work and he spent time researching Astrophysics after retiring.

Hillel Unz was born to Moshe and Rivka Unz on Aug. 15, 1929, in Darmstadt, Germany. His father was originally from the city of Haifa, Israel and the family returned there in 1932. Hillel Unz served in the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and received his bachelor’s degree from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 1953. He moved to the United States later that year and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He moved to Lawrence and began working at the School of Engineering in 1957. Hillel Unz is survived by daughter Tali Unz, son Danny Unz, and daughter-in-law Ariela Unz and grandchildren Alon, Amir and Eyal.

“He was a very curious person,” Danny Unz said. “I always remember him with a book in his hand.”

— Edited by Stefanie Penn

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