 BIGELOW, WINFIELD SCOTT JR. (Scott Bigelow) Of Sandia Park. NM, died Monday, September 22, 2014 in Albuquerque, NM from complications from Lewy-body Dementia and Parkinson's Disease. He was 70 years old. Scott was born July 15, 1944 in Upper Darby, PA to Ethel and Winfield S. Bigelow. He is survived by his wife, Linda Puckett Bigelow of Sandia Park NM; step-son John Allen Stafford (deceased), step-son James Michael Duvall; daughter Hope Bigelow DuBois, and her husband Andy of Santa Fe, NM; son Scott David Bigelow an his wife Jennifer Bigelow of Denver, CO; daughter Joy Esprit of Albuquerque, NM; son Mark Bigelow and his wife Kanu Bigelow of Pahoa, HI; brother, Gary E. Bigelow and his wife Sheila of Portage, MI; nephew Brian Bigelow and his wife Sarah Bigelow of Chicago, IL; niece Lisa Bigelow of Skokie, IL; grandchildren Jaren G. DuBois and Ivy E. Bigelow; and ex-spouse, Faith Harmony of Albuquerque, NM. Scott had a distinguished career as a chemist, physicist, and engineer. He obtained a BS in Chemistry from Union College in 1966, an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Physics from AFIT in 1983. He held a number of important positions both in the Air Force and in a number of small companies. He was the director of a chemical analysis laboratory for the Air Force, where he served as Chief of Beam Physics and Chief of Computational Physics. He later worked for a number of engineering firms in Albuquerque, the most recent being Farr Research, where he spent 16 years. There, he studied a variety of Ultra-Wideband antennas and devices, including the Impulse Radiating Antennas. Scott was particularly well know for developing very large and complex computer codes. He developed one such code for Farr Research that controlled a time domain antenna range and processed the data. He published many technical papers and attended many conferences, both locally and abroad. His career was recently recognized by election to Fellow status by the Summa Foundation, which is the preeminent academic organization in High Power Electromagnetics. Scott enjoyed foreign travel and had a great appreciation for foreign cultures and languages. He learned Japanese and taught English to Japanese students while stationed on Yokota AFB, Japan in the mid-1970s. He and his wife Linda hosted a total 13 foreign exchange students through their years together. Scott enjoyed nature and the outdoors, cooking, solving puzzles and classical music. He had the intelligence and curiosity of the scientist he was and along with it, a wry sense of humor, calm speaking voice, and well thought-out, greatly detailed contributions to discussions. Scott had an appreciation and respect for "the underdog" or for those who were less fortunate and struggling in life. He greatly valued education and the contributions of scientific thinking to the world at large and his family. Scott will be greatly missed by all those who loved him. Donations can be made in memorial of W. Scott Bigelow to either the Lewy Body Dementia Association: http://www.lbda.org/node/581 or the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research at http://www.michaeljfox.org/get involved/donation2php?pg=tribute
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