Karlheinz (Kai) E. Woehler PhD, known to his friends as "Kai", a retired professor of physics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, passed away on June 13, 2021, from complications of Dementia at the Vista Harden Ranch Memory Care Facility in Salinas. He was 91 years old.

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​Born in Berlin, Germany, Kai experience the horrible destruction of the war in Germany, but nevertheless, attended the universities in Bonn and Aachen from which he graduated with an M.S. degree in physics and then on to the Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, where he earned his PhD in 1962. That year, he and his Annedore, and son Markus, moved to the Monterey Peninsula where he joined the faculty of the physics department of the Naval Postgraduate School. He remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1997, earning an award as an outstanding educator of America.

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Kai was preceded in death by his wife, Annedore, who passed away in 2004. He is survived by his son Markus (wife, Kristi) of Monterey, CA; grandson Aleksander Woehler of Ontario, CN; sister, Elke Korge of Berlin, DE; nephew Udo Woehler and niece, Kersin Woehler, of Bad Ems, DE.