Richard E. Stanton Obituary
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Richard E. Stanton in Buffalo, New York, born in New York, New York, who passed away on August 23, 2023, at the age of 91, leaving to mourn family and friends. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Richard E. Stanton to pay them a last tribute.
He is survived by: his wife Mary; his children, William Stanton (Eu Meng Lam), Dr. Michael Stanton (Marian), Meg Steffan (Tom), Richard Stanton and Rory Stanton; his grandchildren, Mary Rose Steffan, Andrew Steffan, Daniel Stanton, Erin Stanton, Eleanor Stanton and Rachel Stanton; and his brother Kenneth Stanton (Marguerite). He is also survived by nieces and nephews.
Dick Stanton made significant contributions to perturbation theory and is credited as the originator of the concept of "kinetic balance," the key principle for stable relativistic computations. In 1970 he was awarded a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.