Margaret Nast Lewis, 101, dies
Margaret Nast Lewis, 101, of Cambridge, and Salisbury Cove, Maine, died on Nov. 23, at Mount Auburn Hospital. Lewis had a long and celebrated career teaching physics at several renowned universities and colleges. She joined the faculty of the Harvard College Observatory in 1961, and remained there until her retirement in 1986. A daughter of the late Warren Harmon Lewis and Margaret Reed Lewis, Margaret Nast Lewis was born Aug. 21, 1911, in Baltimore. She grew up and attended schools in Baltimore with her siblings, the late Warren R. Lewis and Jessica Lewis Myers. Much of her childhood was spent in Salisbury Cove, where her parents were founding members of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. Lewis was active in her support of the laboratory, endowing the Lewis Science Lecture series named for her sister, and and funding many building and scientific endeavors. Lewis graduated from Goucher College in 1931 with...