Kleinberg services

Mr. Kleinberg died Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at Pioneer Ridge Health Center. He was cremated.

He was born Feb. 14, 1914, in Passaic, N.J., the son of William Kleinberg and Rebecca Sirota. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., with a degree in chemistry and earned his master’s and doctorate in chemistry from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Kleinberg was a distinguished inorganic chemist and professor at Kansas University from 1946 until he retired in 1984. He served as department chairman from 1963 to 1970 and taught summer institutes for high school chemistry teachers for the National Science Foundation. He was co-author of several chemistry textbooks and published 95 papers in his field. The Midwest Award from the American Chemical Society and the Amoco Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching were among awards he won. He led two committees at KU that selected two chancellors, was president of Phi Beta Kappa and served on the Faculty/University Council and the College Promotion and Tenure Committee.

Before his career at KU, Mr. Kleinberg taught at James Millikin University, Decatur, Ill., and University of Illinois school of pharmacy in Chicago. He also was a consultant at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.

His wife, Jane Crawford, died March 21, 1994.

Survivors include two daughters, Judith Kleinberg Harmony, Cincinnati, and Mary Jill Kleinberg, Lawrence.

The family suggests memorials to the KU chemistry department, sent in care of the KU Endowment Association, P.O. Box 928, Lawrence 66044; or to the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive, Lawrence 66044.

Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.