James Angell, 81; Stanford Engineering Professor, Carillonneur

James Angell, 81, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University and the school’s carillonneur for 31 years, died Feb. 13 at his home in San Francisco of complications of Parkinson’s disease.

“Jim’s research focused on the application of integrated circuit technology to the fabrication of sensors for biomedical instrumentation and the generation and manipulation of musical sounds with digital systems,” said Bruce Woolery, chairman of Stanford’s engineering school.

Perhaps best known as the university’s official carillonneur, Angell played the carillon from 1960 to 1991.

Angell was born on Staten Island, N.Y., and earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at MIT. He worked for Philco on circuit applications before joining the Stanford faculty in 1960. He became a full professor in 1962.