9/23/24
Gregg E. Irvin, Ph.D., of Skaneateles NY, age 73, died on the morning of Monday, September 23, 2024, at SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital. Gregg is survived by his wife Lauren, daughters Meredith and Kelsey (Bryan Haberberger), stepson Steven Dean, granddaughter Kemper Beuerlein, and brother Bill. He was preceded in death by his daughter Emily Irvin, nephew, Keif Irvin, and dear friend, Charles Rounds. He was grateful for the care his family gave to him throughout his life. He enjoyed the company of many dear friends.
Gregg was born in Rochester, NY, on April 27, 1951, to William Charles Irvin III and Annabelle Elaine Aubin. A sensory neurophysiologist, Gregg earned his Ph.D. in Visual Psychophysiology (1980) from Syracuse University and completed his Post Doctoral Fellowship in Electrophysiology (1985) at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, after which, he moved to Dayton, OH and began a lifelong career at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. For 40 years, he pioneered the development of multispectral sensing, advanced display design, and laser hardening technologies. Up until his death, he developed advanced sensory modeling and human-system interfaces for the Air Force Industry.
Gregg was warm-hearted, brilliant, approachable, and had a quirky sense of humor. He was always himself, and friendly to everyone he met. He loved his kitties, morning coffee, summer festivals, music concerts, cycling, sailing, camping, and woodworking. He was extremely skilled when it came to home improvements, landscape designs, and making repairs. There was never a problem Gregg couldn’t solve. A lifelong learner, he avidly pursued astronomy, quantum mechanics, and theory of consciousness. A man beyond the stars, he is forever loved and will be dearly missed.
A memorial service will be held at Robert D. Gray Funeral Home, Skaneateles, NY at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 27 at 49 Jordan Street, Skaneateles, NY, 13152. Friends are encouraged to donate to American Cancer Society in lieu of flowers.
I worked for Gregg in the 80’s at Wright-Patt. He fostered an environment that was extremely creative, productive and fun. He treated everyone with utmost respect. I will never forget the great times we spent together.
I met Gregg in 1985 in Dayton, OH when he came to work at the Air Force Research Lab, at Wright Patterson. He was our team's technical lead and those were such productive and fun times. I learned so much from Gregg, and had a great time at work and off work being zany with him. He was warm hearted, generous, genius and approached everything with enthusiasm. Our friendship and work collaboration continued as we both moved on in our careers. I will miss him dearly. Am honored to have had him in my life. My deepest condolences to his family & those who loved him.
Joe Riegler, Gilbert AZ
Gregg & I meeting up at Eglin AFB, 2007
I met Gregg in Graduate School at Syracuse University in the late 70's. We collaborated on many projects over the next 40 years. He was always considerate. He picked me up from the airport and put me up at his home whenever I came to Dayton to work on our collaborations.
He was one of the good ones.
I don't think you completely lose a person, only their body. A part of them will live on in our memories.
RIP
Jim Gaska
Gregg
Was and always will be
“A Prince of a man”
Attributes of
Intelligence
Kind
Giving
Dedicated
Loving
And caring
With his relatives, friends and acquaintances
Especially with his family
A wonderful husband, father, brother, uncle ,cousin, nephew or son
“ A Prince of a man”
Bob and Gail Brewer
I was Greg's postdoctoral advisor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Greg was brilliant! I so enjoyed working with him and Tom Kuyk in the early 1980s. Greg's quirky inventiveness, optimism and ability to creatively solve problems contributed to research papers that have been cited by other authors hundreds of times and are still being cited today. I remember his creative technique for "hiding" fighter jets with images printed on a sheet of canvas! For years (until I retired) I used that in classes I taught optometry students when discussing how to "fool" our visual perceptions. Greg was very special!