Charles William Reich
Charles William Reich
Charles William Reich
1930 - 2017
Charles William Reich of Boise, Idaho, died peacefully
Sunday morning, September 10, 2017. He was 86.
Charles was born September 12, 1930 in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, son of Fred William and Gertrude Evelyn (nee Veal) Reich. He was
preceded in death by his wife, Juana Sue (nee Woods), his mother and father,
and a sister, Mary Ann Henderson. He is
survived by a brother, John, of Tempe, Arizona, a son, Paul William, of
Chicago, a daughter, Jane Kristen, of Oklahoma City, a daughter, Donna Karen,
and a grandson, Stephen Plant, both of Pocatello.
Charles attended public school in Oklahoma City, graduating
in 1948. He received his Bachelors
degree in Physics in 1952 from the University of Oklahoma.
After graduation, Charles married Juana Sue Woods. In 1952,
the couple moved to Houston, Texas where their son, Paul William, was
born. Charles pursued a graduate degree
in Physics at Rice University. He
completed his Physics PhD in 1956.
Charles joined the National Reactor Testing Station (now the
INL) in 1956, and moved the family to Idaho Falls. Two daughters, Jane Kristen and Donna Karen,
were born in Idaho Falls.
Charles worked at INL for 36 years, retiring to Boise, Idaho
in 1992. He published over 100 research
papers, contributed to international scientific meetings, and directed the PhD
research of three students. He was Guest
Scientist at the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark from 1964-1965. In 1965, Charles was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society. He was the
second Science and Engineering Fellow named at INL.
In 1958, he developed the Reich-Moore formalism for the
analysis of neutron resonance data. He
was given major responsibility for the Evaluated Nuclear Data File/B, a common
base of nuclear data used by US reactor research and development programs. From 1976–1984, he served as US Coordinator/
Representative to the International Atomic Agency’s Coordinated Research
Program for Trans-actinium Isotope Nuclear Data. He collaborated in the evaluation of nuclear
properties of odd-mass rare-earth elements.
Charles and Sue were active in church-related activities. He
taught adult Sunday school at the Euclid Avenue Church of the Nazarene in
Boise, Idaho. He served on Work and
Witness Trips to places such as Mexico, and Kenya. He was active on local church boards.
A celebration of his life will be held at the Euclid Avenue
Church of the Nazarene, in Boise, on Friday, September 15. The family requests
that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Compassionate Ministries
Fund of the Church of the Nazarene, through the Euclid Avenue Church.
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