Theodore Richard Madden (1925–2013)

Theodore R. Madden, lifelong professor of geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), fascinated with all things electromagnetic, ingenious in bridging theory with experiment, AGU Fellow, and a geophysicist's geophysicist, died on 11 November 2013 at age 88. A special symposium and memorial (http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2014/madden‐memorial) was held at MIT on 14 March 2014 on the occasion of his birthday. At that time, Frank Press, former president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, said, “Ted Madden and his students put geophysics on the map at MIT.”