  Stirling Colgate was a remarkably imaginative physicist, an independent
thinker with a wide breadth of interests and contagious enthusiasm, a born
leader with enduring drive to attack fundamental problems in science. Among his
many achievements, he founded the quantitative theory of stellar collapse and
supernova explosions, and introduced numerical simulation into the
astrophysical toolbox. He brought strong physical intuition to both theory and
experiment, in the sciences of nuclear weapons, magnetic and inertial fusion,
as well as astrophysics.
