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Friday, May 21, 2004

RIP Edward Simmons, 1911-2004

Sadly, one of Caltech's stranger icons has passed away.

From the Pasadena Star-News, Edward Simmons was best-known in his later years for his fondness for wearing tutus while strolling Colorado Boulevard and for acting as a gadfly to city government. But to scientists and engineers he was most famous for inventing the strain gauge while still a Caltech student in 1936.

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