Later Life
Marburger returned to Stony Brook University as faculty in 2009. He also served as Vice President for Research but stepped down on July 1, 2011. Marburger died Thursday, July 28, 2011, at his home in Port Jefferson, New York, after four years of treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He is survived by his wife, Carol. His final publication, a book on quantum physics for laypeople, was published shortly after his death.
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