Obituaries

Bernard Korenblit Johns Hopkins Lab Official

Bernard Korenblit, 92, who retired around 1990 from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as director of technology transfer, died Oct. 29 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney. He had complications from leukemia.

Mr. Korenblit's work focused on how technology developed at the laboratory could be adapted for private industry and other practical purposes.

Before joining the laboratory in 1974, he spent about 15 years doing managerial and financial administrative work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Defense Department research and development office known as Darpa.

Mr. Korenblit was born in Hoboken, N.J., and he grew up in New York. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II and a 1951 graduate of New York University. Early in his career, he did administrative work at the Veterans Administration in New York.

He settled in the Washington area in the mid-1950s and was a longtime Wheaton resident before moving in 1988 to the Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring. He was a member of the Jewish War Veterans of Leisure World.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Sonya Kronfeld Korenblit of Leisure World; two daughters, Barbara Korenblit of Owings Mills, Md., and Rachel Korenblit of Great Falls; a sister; and two grandsons.

-- Adam Bernstein