Roger H. Stuewer

An obituary for Roger H. Stuewer, the giant in the history of physics and an emeritus professor of history of science at the University of Minnesota who died on July 29, 2022, is presented. Stuewer was born on September 12, 1934 in Bonduel, Wisconsin. In 1952 he began his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. After a stint in the US Army, stationed mostly in Munich, he resumed his undergraduate work in 1956, eventually majoring in physics education. After teaching high school for a year, Roger used the one year of academic education he had left under the GI Bill to study physics in Vienna in 1959. A few months after he married Helga von Schmeidel in April 1960, they moved to Tiffin, Ohio, where Roger had been hired as a physics instructor at Heidelberg College.