| Graduation Year | Class of 1987 |
| Date of Passing | Feb 06, 2006 |
| About | Dr. Howard Andrew Chamblin, 36, formerly of Amarillo, died Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in First Baptist Church with Dr. Winfred Moore officiating. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. Howard Andrew Chamblin was born May 13, 1969, in Lubbock to Ed and Caroline Chamblin. He moved with his family to Amarillo when he was 3 weeks old. He graduated from Amarillo High School in 1987 where he was active on the golf team, the Latin Club and the academic decathalon program. He always considered his AHS calculus teacher, Dale Martin, to be his first mentor. He also loved music, studying keyboard at WTAMU and under the tutelage of Amarillo Symphony Conductor Robert Bernhardt. In 1991 he graduated from Rice University with a degree in mathematics. He started his Ph.D. program at Oxford University before he was invited to move to Cambridge University to study with the world-famous theoretical physicist, Professor Steven Hawking, widely proclaimed as Einstein's heir. Under Professor Hawking's tutelage, he obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1997. Returning to the United States, he did a three-year post-doctoral study at MIT, before taking a position at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2000. While living in the Southwest, he took great pride in climbing all of the Fourteeners in Colorado. As part of the Hawking Group, he published more than 30 adjudicated papers on the subjects of general relativity and the origins of the universe. He delivered these papers at conferences around the world, including Israel, France and Switzerland. He loved research but he also loved lecturing and teaching, once receiving a standing ovation for a lecture he gave at the University of Chicago. In 2003 he moved to the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky where he was assistant professor and guest lecturer in physics, at the time of his death. Dr. Chamblin is survived by his parents, Ed and Caroline Chamblin of Amarillo; his grandfather, Andrew Warren Stowe of Amarillo; a brother, Jonathan Chamblin of Bernalillo, N.M.; an aunt and uncle, Joan and J.G. Serrata and cousins James Serrata, Edward Serrata, Lucinda Serrata Roman and Janine Serrata Tudoni, all of San Francisco; as well as cousins Kim Galloway Holston and Mark Galloway of Amarillo and Rhonda Boyce of Austin. In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials be to the physics or music programs at West Texas A&M University. Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 9, 2006 |
