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Louis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and women's and gender...

Louis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and women’s and gender studies at MIT, died in hospice care on May 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 91. The cause was cardiac arrest.The only...

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Bill Hanson, a founder of MIT Leaders for Global Operations, dies at 80

Bill Hanson, an inspirational founding figure of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program and a mentor to hundreds of its alumni, died on July 15 at the age of 80.Hanson was senior vice...

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Arthur Samberg, philanthropist and MIT Corporation life member, dies at 79

Arthur “Art” Samberg ’62, a pioneer in investment management and longtime member of the MIT Corporation, died of leukemia on July 14. He was 79.Reflecting his wide-ranging interests at MIT, Samberg...

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Tunney Lee, professor emeritus of urban planning, dies at 88

Tunney Lee, professor emeritus of urban planning and former head of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), passed away of complications from cancer treatment on July 2 in Boston. He...

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Michael Hawley, former professor of media arts and sciences, dies at 58

Michael Hawley, a former MIT professor who was recognized globally as a modern-day Renaissance man, died on Wednesday, June 24, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after battling a long illness....

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Dietmar Seyferth, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 91

Dietmar Seyferth, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and pioneer in the field of organometallic chemistry, died of complications from Covid-19 on Saturday, June 6. He was 91.“Dietmar’s...

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Professor Emeritus Michael Athans, pioneer in control theory, dies at 83

MIT electrical engineering and computer science Professor Emeritus Michael Athans died peacefully on May 26 at his home in Clearwater, Florida, at the age of 83. Athans was born in Drama, Macedonia,...

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Paul Thomas, MIT’s “Mr. Magnet,” dies at 77

Paul Thomas, best known as MIT’s “Mr. Magnet,” passed away peacefully on May 4 at the age of 77, after a five-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.By the time he retired from MIT in 2014, the technical...

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Yukio Okamoto, Japanese diplomat and MIT research fellow, dies at 74

Yukio Okamoto, a Japanese diplomat and fellow at MIT, died from Covid-19 on April 24 at the age of 74. The former special advisor to two prime ministers of Japan joined the Center for International...

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Daniel Kemp, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 83

Daniel S. Kemp, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, died peacefully and comfortably from respiratory complications due to Covid-19, after a battle with dementia, on Saturday, May 2. He...

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Ramachandra Dasari, associate director of the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Lab,...

Ramachandra Rao Dasari, associate director of the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, which houses the MIT-Laser Biomedical Research Center, passed away peacefully of natural causes, surrounded by...

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Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science,...

Kenneth Keniston, a founder and pillar of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and later of the MIT-India Program, passed away on Feb. 14 after a long illness. He was 90 years...

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Professor Emeritus Arnold Demain, a pioneer in the development of...

Arnold Lester Demain, professor emeritus of biology, passed away on Apr. 3 at the age of 92 from complications due to Covid-19. He was just shy of celebrating his 93rd birthday.Demain advanced the...

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Professor Emeritus Ulrich Becker, who made major contributions to particle...

Ulrich J. Becker, a professor emeritus in the Department of Physics, passed away on March 10 at age 81, after a long struggle with cancer.Becker became emeritus in 2011 after 42 years with MIT, but he...

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Thomas Dupree, professor emeritus of nuclear science and engineering and...

Thomas H. Dupree, a professor emeritus in both the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics, passed away on Feb. 11 at the age of 86.Focusing on theoretical plasma...

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Richard Dudley, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 81

Richard Mansfield Dudley, MIT professor emeritus of mathematics, died on Jan. 19 following a long illness. He was 81. Dudley served on the MIT mathematics faculty from 1967 until 2015, when he...

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Frank Press, MIT geophysicist and U.S. science adviser, dies at 95

Frank Press, a noted geophysicist and science adviser to four U.S. presidents, died Jan. 29 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 95.Press, an MIT Corporation life member emeritus, was the chair of...

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Aron Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88

Aron Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics and longtime anti-nuclear proliferation activist, died on Jan. 14 after a short battle with cancer. He was 88.Aron Bernstein joined MIT in 1961, and taught...

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Maurice Fox, professor emeritus of biology, dies at 95

Maurice Sanford Fox, professor emeritus of biology and former head of the Department of Biology, passed away on Jan. 26 at the age of 95.Fox was instrumental in creating and revising several courses...

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Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies...

Jeanne Guillemin, a medical anthropologist and biological warfare expert, died on Nov. 15, 2019, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 76.Guillemin received her bachelor’s degree in social...

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