Robert E. Akins, 58; Professor Was Expert on Wind Power
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Robert E. Akins, 58, a professor of physics at Washington and Lee University and an expert on wind power, has died.
Akins died Nov. 3 of cancer, the university said Monday.
Akins, a former member of the Virginia Tech faculty, was widely published on wind power and wind-related design and construction. He served on an Energy Department panel assessing a federal wind energy program.
He began his teaching career at Virginia Tech and joined the faculty at Washington and Lee in 1984.
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