Robert T. Jantzen

Born in a small rural village of New York State, Bob went to Princeton University during the peak of its love affair with black holes and general relativity born out of John Wheeler's interest in the field, where Bob managed to run into Remo Ruffini who put him on the relativity train. Next stop was a Physics PhD as Abraham Taub's last student at UC  Berkeley, and then on to a one year postdoc with James W. York, Jr. before running off to Rome for the following year where he became an honorary Italian. The next academic year was spent in Jurgen Ehler's group at Max Planck Astrophysics in Munich before returning to the USA , landing at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for a re-entry period. After two years as a postdoc there, Bob entered the teaching job market and found a comfortable home as a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Villanova University in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.

And then 3 and a half decades went by so quickly...