Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge

Obituaries
The Council records the death of the following Fellows and former Fellows of
the College; the obituaries of Peter Avery and Hal Dixon will appear in next
year’s Annual Report:
PETER LIPTON (1994)
The death of Peter Lipton was
sudden, unexpected and bitterly
painful not just to his family, but to a
set of overlapping communities – the
College, his department, the Jewish
community, the international
community of scholars in philosophy
and the history of science, and a host
of young and old budding
philosophers whom he inspired in
person and in his immensely
personal responses to philosophical
questions on the Web. He died aged
only 53, of a heart attack, after a
game of squash, a sport he loved and studied with his typically amused but
committed focus. Diana, his wife, was with him.
His family was central to his life – to the good life, as he understood and
pursued it – and not one of the hundreds who were present at the funeral
will ever forget the dignity and poise of his sons, Jacob and Jonah, as they
paid tribute to their father, and the intensely moving singing of the
memorial prayer by Diana. They stood as the embodiment of what he had
achieved, cared about and passed on as a person, and the immensity of his
loss was powerfully experienced by everyone there.
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