Editing Frederick Seitz (section)

==Background and personal life==
Seitz was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1911. His mother was also from San Francisco and his father, after whom he was named, was born in Germany.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Slichter |first=Charles P. |date=2010 |title=Frederick Seitz 1911–2008 |url=https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/seitz-frederick.pdf |journal=Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences |pages=4}}</ref> Seitz graduated from [[Lick-Wilmerding High School]] in the middle of his senior year, and went on to study physics at [[Stanford University]] obtaining his bachelor's degree in three years,<ref name=PhysicsToday /> graduating in 1932.<ref name=TDo /> He married Elizabeth K. Marshall on May 18, 1935.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=CJMYAAAAIAAJ Current biography yearbook, Volume 17]'', H.W. Wilson Company, 1957. p564</ref>

Seitz died March 2, 2008, in New York.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news|author=D. Hevesi|title=Frederick Seitz, 96, Dies; Physicist Who Led Skeptics of Global Warming |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E1D71138F935A35750C0A96E9C8B63 |work=The New York Times |date=2008-03-06 |page=C12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=J.L. Bast |title=Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City |url=http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22848 |access-date=2008-03-04 |archive-date=2008-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314144916/http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22848 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He was survived by a son, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.<ref name=NYTobit />