Antony Fraser-Smith, expert in low-frequency waves, has died

Antony Fraser-Smith, research professor emeritus in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Geophysics at Stanford University, whose work included groundbreaking insights into the fields of radio seismology and electromagnetic methods of submarine detection, died June 16, 2025. In 1968, Fraser-Smith joined Stanford University’s Radioscience Laboratory, which was renamed in the early 1980s to become the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience (STAR) Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering. There, he worked as a research assistant, senior research associate in electrical engineering, then finally as professor of electrical engineering and of geophysics alongside colleagues that included Ronald Bracewell, Robert Helliwell, Oswald Garrison “Mike” Villard Jr., and former STAR Lab Director Umran Inan. And everyone in the conversation knew that and enjoyed it.”Antony Charles Fraser-Smith was born July 7, 1938, in Auckland, New Zealand. Fraser-Smith was predeceased by his son, Bill Frasersmith.