December 8, 2021
Canisius University is saddened to report the passing of Daniel F. Dempsey ’51, PhD.
Dempsey died on August 20, 2021. He was 92.
A professor of physics at Canisius for 51 years, much of Dempsey’s scholarly work focused on neutral particle beams by fictitious force fields and trajectories for projectiles, both areas in which he published widely.
Dempsey earned his undergraduate degree from the college and his doctorate degree from the University of Notre Dame.
