Matthew Willson

Matthew Willson (1990–2022) Stefan Kraus and colleagues remember a charismatic colleague whose career in observational astronomy ended far too soon. High angular resolution has suffered great loss with the sudden death of Dr. at age 31. was visiting his long-time girlfriend Katherine Shepard (a PhD student Georgia State University Atlanta) when he struck by stray gunshot that entered apartment where staying. He died hospital few days later on 18 January 2022. This tragic premature end to life such promising young scientist devastated many both sides Atlantic. born London March 1990. loved stars from earliest years, and, blessed an amazing memory, way lifetime learning. began formal astrophysics as (2008–12) Royal Holloway, London, just down road childhood home. There worked Stewart Boogert design, construction, calibration spectrometer for use university's 30 cm telescope. led students cold evenings, teaching telescope wrestling equipment into operation programmes photometry spectroscopy.