degrees from the University of Arizona before serving in the Navy during the Korean War.
[2] While at the University of Arizona, Stille met his wife-to-be, Dolores Engelking.
[1] He and Dolores were married in 1958 and had two sons, John Robert and James Kenneth.
[2] Stille was killed at age 59 in the United Airlines Flight 232 crash at Sioux City, Iowa.
[1] In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for their work on palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.