Dr. Carl Henry Eckart - 27S

I have been able to find a few biographies and encyclopedia articles on Dr. Eckart, husband of Edith Louise Frazee, but what follows is the only obituary I have found.  Despite his importance to San Diego, an obit was not published in the San Diego Union. 

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri May 4, 1902 to Will and Lilly Hellwig Eckart.  UCSD says that he married  Eda Lou Major while at Princeton, which suggests that Eda Lou was married prior to meeting him, but I have not been able to find any verification of this. The marriage lasted 18 years and was briefly described in his biography on Page 209. 

In 1958, a decade after the divorce, he married the widow of his good friend, John von Neumann. Karla Dan von Neumann died in 1963 drowning in the Pacific.

Carl Eckart

Carl Eckart, a geophysicist at the University of California, San Diego, died on 24 October. He was 71 years old.

Eckart was the founder and first director of the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He also served for a brief period as director of the Scripps Institution (1948-1950) before returning to his former post with the Marine Physical Laboratory.  Eckart was recently awarded the Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics Medal by the Acoustical Society of America (see PHYSICS TODAY, November 1973, page 75) 

Physics Today - January 1974 p. 87