Professor emeritus Elias P. Gyftopoulos dies at 84
Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Ford Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, died peacefully at his home in Lincoln, Mass., on Saturday, June 23. He was 84 years old. Considered by...
View ArticleAngus MacDonald, longtime MIT Corporation member, dies at 86
Angus Nathaniel MacDonald ’46, SM ’47, who served on the MIT Corporation for most of the last four decades, died at his home in Greenwich, Conn., on Sunday, July 8. He was 86.The cause of death was...
View ArticleMelvin H. Rodman, former medical director at MIT Medical, dies at 90
Melvin H. Rodman, M.D., former medical director at MIT Medical and professor of medicine at MIT, passed away on Aug. 12. He was 90.Rodman was a Massachusetts native who grew up in Malden where his...
View ArticleBenson Rowell Snyder, former psychiatrist-in-chief at MIT, dies at 89
Benson Rowell Snyder, a former professor and psychiatrist-in-chief at MIT, died on Sept. 4 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 89.Snyder was born March 29, 1923, in Glen Ridge, N.J. He was one of four children...
View ArticleJay K. Lucker, former director of the MIT Libraries, dies at 82
Jay K. Lucker, former director of the MIT Libraries, and nationally known library building and planning consultant, passed away on Sept. 2. He was 82.Lucker was a native of New York City who started...
View ArticleLeonard A. Gould, EECS emeritus professor, dies at 85
Leonard A. Gould, an alumnus and emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science died on Saturday, Sept. 8. He was 85. Gould, who received his SB and ScD from MIT in...
View ArticleLeonard Lerman, former senior lecturer at MIT, dies at 87
Leonard S. Lerman, a former senior lecturer at MIT and a molecular biologist whose groundbreaking research shaped the way we analyze and manipulate DNA, died Sept. 19 in Cambridge after a long illness....
View ArticleNuclear physicist Peter T. Demos dies at 94
Peter T. Demos, a nuclear physicist who guided MIT’s Bates Linear Accelerator from a groundbreaking idea in 1961 to a globally renowned center for the study of nuclear structure and reactions, died of...
View ArticleMIT community mourns the loss of Sloan graduate student Heng ‘Nikita’ Guo
Heng “Nikita” Guo, 28, a graduate student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, was found deceased on Friday at her off-campus residence in Cambridge. A native of Shenzhen, China, Guo had lived in New...
View ArticlePioneering applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin dies at 96
Chia-Chiao Lin, an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT who played a pivotal role in the development of applied mathematics both in the United States and in China, died Sunday in Beijing. He was 96. The...
View ArticleNevin S. Scrimshaw, pioneer in nutrition research, dies at 95
Institute Professor emeritus Nevin S. Scrimshaw, who founded MIT’s former Department of Nutrition and Food Science, died in Plymouth, N.H., on Friday, Feb. 8. He was 95 and died of congestive heart...
View ArticleRobert Bishop, MIT economist and dean, dies at age 96
Robert Bishop, a microeconomic theorist and innovative teacher who served as head of MIT’s Department of Economics and as dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, died on Thursday,...
View ArticleDavid White, founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, dies at 89
David Calvin White, founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory and a longtime faculty member, died on Jan. 11. He was 89.A resident of Scottsdale, Ariz., and formerly of Mashpee, Mass., White...
View ArticleHistorian of science Charles Weiner dies at 80
Charles Weiner, professor emeritus of the history of science and technology at MIT, died Saturday, Jan. 28, in West Cork, Ireland. He was 80 and resided in New York and Yarmouth Port, Mass.Weiner died...
View ArticleMIT community mourns the death of junior Brian G. Anderson
Around noon today, MIT junior Brian G. Anderson was found deceased in his room in the Next House dormitory. Anderson, 21, was a native of Redwood Falls, Minn.The Massachusetts State Police and the...
View Article‘A young man who was so spectacularly gifted’
At Brian G. Anderson’s memorial service in Minnesota on Saturday, friends and family agreed on certain things about the MIT junior: He was fearless and strong. He was brilliant and loved MIT. He was...
View ArticleRobert Whitman, longtime CEE professor, dies at 84
Robert V. Whitman SM ’49, ScD ’51, a world-renowned geotechnical engineer and expert on earthquakes in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), died on Feb. 25. He was 84. With...
View ArticleLouis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88
Louis S. Osborne, a particle physicist whose cutting-edge research inspired colleagues and students alike, died Jan. 22 of congestive heart failure. A long-time resident of Lexington, Mass, Osborne was...
View ArticleDevelopment economist Alice Amsden dies at 68
Alice H. Amsden, an expert in economic development who served as the Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, died suddenly on March 14 at her...
View ArticleLois Craig, former associate dean in the School of Architecture + Planning,...
Lois Craig, associate dean of the School of Architecture + Planning in the 1980s and early 1990s, died March 23 in Chicago after a long illness. She was 82.A trusted and valued adviser to many...
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