A funeral mass for Laboratory employee Robert Donohoe is scheduled for 11 Thursday morning in Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Canyon Road in Los Alamos. Donohoe died April 26. He was 50.
Donohoe was deputy group leader in Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (C-PCS). His wife Anne works in Threat Reduction and Physics (FME-TRP).
A rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m., this evening at the church.
Donohoe joined the Laboratory as a postdoc in 1988 in the former Isotope and Nuclear Chemistry (INC) Division. His expertise was in Raman spectroscopy, which he applied to a variety of projects from environmental efforts, the electronic behavior of novel materials, to biomedical systems. He was the co-author of more than 60 publications, mostly detailing the development and application of spectroscopic methods to the study of molecular structure, dynamics, and chemistry.
Donohoe earned bachelor's degrees in math and chemistry from the University of Arizona, and a doctoral degree in physical chemistry from North Carolina State University.
In addition to his wife, Donohoe is survived by sons Sean and Patrick; mother Lillian, of Woodbridge, Virginia; a sister, Ellen Donohoe-Sundahl of Hillsdale, Michigan; and brothers Kevin of Boston and John of Woodbridge, Virginia.
