Gerald T. Garvey, a very well-known nuclear physicist, passed away on November 14 at the age of 89 from a rare heart disease. Gerry leaves behind his beloved wife of 65 years Doris, their three wonderful children: Deirdre, Gerald, and Victoria, 7 grandchildren, and 5 great grandchildren. Gerry died knowing he had experienced a happy and successful life.

Both of Gerry's parents, Anne Williams (Garvey) and Jack Garvey immigrated from the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland to the US in the early 1900s. Gerry and his parents moved to Hartford, CT. just before the outbreak of WWII. He grew up in Hartford and went on to Fairfield University where he ran track and earned a B.S. in physics. Upon graduation he moved to Boston where he learned that he had a talent for physics. That led to attending Yale in 1958, marrying Doris in 1959, and receiving his Ph.D. in 1963.

He began his academic career serving as a faculty member at Yale and Princeton Universities, becoming a full professor at Princeton in 1969. In 1976 he left Princeton to become Director of the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory and was a professor at the University of Chicago. During this period, he oversaw the construction and initial operation of the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator facility, ATLAS, which utilized novel superconducting linac technology and remains an important facility for nuclear structure studies to this day.

In 1984 he moved to Santa Fe and became director of Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF). During this time, he was instrumental in advancing neutrino physics at LAMPF and initiating the Los Alamos effort on the Soviet American Gallium Experiment (SAGE) in Baksan, Russia. In 1990 he became a Laboratory Senior Fellow. and focused his efforts on physics research. This began with the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) at LAMPF to search for neutrino oscillations from the LAMPF beam stop. LSND was followed up by the MiniBooNe experiment at Fermilab, and Gerry was an important contributor to that effort.

Gerry established himself as the resident expert in the collaboration on neutrino nucleus interactions, cheerfully enlightening his particle physics colleagues in the role of short-range correlations and meson exchange current effects. From 1994 through 1996 he served as the Assistant Director for Physical Science and Engineering in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Gerry retired from Los Alamos in 2001 but remained active in research. Gerry and Doris moved to Seattle in 2016, and he maintained an office at the University of Washington until 2019.

Gerry was widely recognized for his contributions to nuclear physics. He was an active member of the American Physical Society, having been Chairman and Councilor of the Nuclear Physics Division. His awards include National Science Pre-doctoral Fellow (1961-1962), Alfred Sloan Foundation Fellow (1966-1970), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (1990-1998), and Sherman-Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech in 1994. Gerry was awarded the American Physical Society Mentoring Award in 2011, "For his remarkable record of mentorship of students and young scientists in nuclear physics. His high intellectual standards and enthusiasm for physics have inspired several generations of nuclear scientists, many of whom went on to provide leadership in expanding the frontiers of the field."

Gerry published over 250 papers on Nuclear Physics, Weak Interactions, High Energy Physics, and Neutrino Physics.