AAdditional Games
Theodore 'Ted' Neil Edelbaum
August 17, 1931 - April 16, 1977
Ted Edelbaum
Repeats in Connecticut
April 18 1977
The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Monday, April 18, 1977
Theodore Edelbaum, MIT engineer
Theodore N. Edelbaum, 45, an aeronautical engineer and chess master died Saturday at his home, 300 Lynn Shore Dr., Lynn, after a long illness. Mr. Edelbaum was deputy associate director of the MIT Draper Laboratory and a lecturer at MIT's department of aeronautics and astronautics.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Lynn the last nine years. He was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and served as associate editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Application and a member of the editorial board of Celestial Mechanics.
In 1973, Mr. Edelbaum was cited by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his work in space trajectory optimization, a field in which he was a pioneer.
He was an associate fellow of the institute and published more than 40 papers in the last 20 years. He is coholder of a U.S. patent for a compound propulsion system.
Mr. Edelbaum was rated as a chess master. He was Connecticut state champion twice and was a member of the Massachusetts Chess Assn., U.S. Chess Foundation and the Boylston Chess Club of Boston. He also was an authority on plant life and a member of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
He leaves his wife, Donna (Patrick); his parents, Maurice and Selma Edelbaum of Hollywood, Fla.; a daughter Laura Edelbaum of Lynn, and a brother Philip Edelbaum of New York City. Funeral services will be private.
