Wife of man who drowned while trying to save another on North Shore

Noted: An obituary for Alec Johnson that appeared in the Dunn County Wis. News noted that Johnson, who was single, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011, and was an astrophysicist and mathematician by trade. He worked at a university in Belgium “on computer modeling to predict the timing and strength of the effect of solar flares on the northern lights, the power grid, computers and satellites,” the obituary said. He also worked with Ugandan farmers on sustainable farming and had a long history of helping the poor, the obituary reported.