Irving Singer, professor emeritus of philosophy, dies at 89
Irving Singer, a professor emeritus of philosophy at MIT, died Feb. 1 at age 89. Singer was an eminent philosopher whose academic career spanned 65 years — with more than half a century as a professor...
View ArticleJack Ruina dies at 91
Jack Ruina, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1997 and emeritus thereafter, died on Feb. 4 at the age of 91.Emigrating...
View ArticleEllen Sico, longtime MIT Travel employee, dies at 61
Ellen Sico, a longtime employee of the MIT Travel department, died on Feb. 6 in Cambridge.Sico joined MIT in 1975 and served the community as a member of MIT Travel until 2012.She is survived by her...
View ArticlePhilanthropist Erna Viterbi dies at 81
Erna Viterbi, a warm and gracious philanthropist who with her husband, Qualcomm co-founder Andrew ’56, SM ’57, gave generously to MIT and a variety of other institutions, died Feb. 17 in San Diego.“In...
View ArticleBCS Professor Emeritus Stephan Chorover dies at 82
Professor Emeritus Stephan Chorover, a founding member of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, passed away on Friday, Feb. 20, at age 82. His more than 50 years at MIT were marked by a...
View ArticleClaude Brenner dies at 86
Claude Brenner, former MIT Corporation member, former president of the MIT Alumni Association, and longtime member of the MIT community, died on Saturday, March 7, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was...
View ArticleNorman B. Leventhal ’38, visionary developer and philanthropist, dies at 97
Norman B. Leventhal ’38 — a visionary developer and philanthropist at the center of Boston’s postwar revival, and a conscience of its civic life — died Sunday at age 97. Leventhal was a life member...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Benjamin Lax dies at 99
Professor Emeritus Benjamin Lax of the MIT Department of Physics passed away on April 21 at the age of 99.Born December 29, 1915, in Miskolc, Hungary, Lax came to New York City as a boy and received...
View ArticleAlexander Rich dies at 90
Alexander Rich, an MIT biophysicist best known for his work on the structural biology of RNA and DNA, died Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 90.Rich, the William Thompson...
View ArticleJane Farver, former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, dies
Jane Farver, a renowned art curator and administrator and the former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, passed away suddenly on April 29. Farver was in Venice, Italy, acting as the editor for...
View ArticleJudith Layzer, expert on environmental politics, dies at 53
Judith Layzer, a professor at MIT and an accomplished scholar who produced influential work on environmental policy and politics, died Thursday after an extended illness. She was 53.Layzer had been on...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus James Fay dies at 91
James A. (Jay) Fay, a professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, past away on Tuesday, June 2, of complications from lymphoma. He was 91.The list of people who will miss him is...
View ArticleCharles Correa, influential architect and planner, dies at 84
Alumnus and former professor Charles Correa MArch ’55 — described as “India’s greatest architect” — passed away on Tuesday at age 84. A visionary architect and urban planner, Correa built a substantial...
View ArticleMujid Kazimi, leading educator and researcher in nuclear technology, dies at 67
Mujid S. Kazimi, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and one of the world’s foremost educators and researchers in nuclear technology, died suddenly on Wednesday in China.Kazimi, who was 67,...
View ArticleFrederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and...
Frederic Richard “Rick” Morgenthaler ’55 (VI-A), SM ’56, PhD ’60, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, died on June 21 at the age of 82. Morgenthaler was an...
View ArticleLouis Howard, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 86
Louis Norberg Howard, emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT, and McKenzie emeritus professor at Florida State University, died on Sunday, June 28, at the age of 86.Howard joined the MIT mathematics...
View ArticleHamlin Jennings, Concrete Sustainability Hub principal investigator, dies at 68
Hamlin M. Jennings, adjunct professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and principal investigator in the Concrete Sustainability Hub, died on July 8 at his home in Cambridge,...
View ArticleEmeritus Professor Regis Pelloux, expert on fatigue and fracture of...
Régis M. N. Pelloux, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, died July 10 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He was 83 years old.Pelloux was born in Passy, France, in the...
View ArticleHartley Rogers, Jr., professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 89
Hartley Rogers, Jr., professor emeritus of mathematics at MIT, died at the Meadow Green Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Friday, July 17. He was 89.Rogers joined the MIT...
View ArticleFrederic John Eppling, Laboratory for Nuclear Science physicist, dies at 95
Frederic John Eppling, a physicist at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science, died on July 16 of congestive heart failure at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 95.Eppling was born in...
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