Dana Mead PhD ’67, former chair of the MIT Corporation, dies at 82
Dana G. Mead PhD ’67, a prominent business leader, military officer, former White House official, and professor who served as chair of the MIT Corporation from 2003 until 2010, died on Oct. 31 in...
View ArticleProfessor Emerita Catherine Chvany, Slavic scholar, dies at 91
Professor Emerita Catherine Vakar Chvany, a renowned Slavic linguist and literature scholar who played a pivotal role in advancing the study of Russian language and literature in MIT’s Foreign...
View ArticleRemembering Professor Emeritus Alan McWhorter, 1930-2018
Alan L. McWhorter, a longtime professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and an administrator and researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, has died in New Orleans,...
View ArticleErnst Frankel, shipping expert and professor emeritus of ocean engineering,...
Ernst G. Frankel MME ’60, SM ‘60, professor emeritus of ocean engineering who served on MIT’s faculty for 36 years, passed away on Nov. 18 at the age of 95. Frankel, who was also a former professor of...
View ArticleLisa Peattie, professor emerita of urban studies and planning, dies at 94
Lisa Peattie, a celebrated scholar and a lifelong activist who was a professor emerita of urban anthropology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and recipient of the ACSP Distinguished...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus János Miklós Beér dies at 95
János Miklós Beér, professor emeritus of chemical and fuel engineering and a pathbreaking researcher in the field of flames, combustion, and cleaner-burning fossil fuels, died peacefully on Dec. 8, in...
View ArticleRichard "Dick" Lyon, acoustics expert and professor emeritus of...
Richard H. "Dick" Lyon PhD ’55, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on Jan. 21 at the age of 89. Lyon, who taught noise, vibration, and sound quality in MIT’s Department of...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus T. Francis Ogilvie, former ocean engineering department...
Thomas (T.) Francis Ogilvie, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, passed away on March 30, at the age of 89. Ogilvie dedicated most of his career to improving how ocean engineering and naval...
View ArticleAlexander Dingee, co-founder of MIT Venture Mentoring Service, dies at 88
Alexander L. M. Dingee Jr. ’52, co-founder of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service and a successful entrepreneur who started seven companies, died March 22, at his home in Rockport, Massachusetts, of...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and...
David Gordon Wilson, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on May 2 at the age of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical...
View ArticleFranklin Fisher, professor emeritus of economics, dies at 84
Franklin M. Fisher, the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, emeritus, died on April 29 at the age of 84. Fisher was born in New York City and received both...
View ArticleJames Livingston, senior lecturer emeritus in materials science and...
James D. Livingston, MIT senior lecturer emeritus, and his wife, Sherry H. Penney, died last week at their home in Sarasota, Florida, where they spent their winters. Married for 34 years, he was 88 and...
View ArticleNorman Phillips, former meteorology department head, dies at 95
Norman A. Phillips, head of the former Department of Meteorology during the 1970s, died on March 15 at the age of 95. His work in atmospheric science showing monthly and seasonal tropospheric patterns...
View ArticleRenowned architect I.M. Pei ’40 dies at 102
Celebrated architect I.M. Pei ’40 died on May 16 in New York City. He was 102.Over the course of a long international career, he designed notable buildings that included museums, cultural and research...
View ArticlePhilip Freelon, professor of the practice and champion of diversity in...
Philip G. Freelon MArch ’77, professor of the practice in the MIT Department of Architecture, lead architect for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Fernando Corbató, MIT computing pioneer, dies at 93
Fernando “Corby” Corbató, an MIT professor emeritus whose work in the 1960s on time-sharing systems broke important ground in democratizing the use of computers, died on Friday, July 12, at his home in...
View ArticleProfessor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence...
Patrick Winston, a beloved professor and computer scientist at MIT, died on July 19 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 76. A professor at MIT for almost 50 years, Winston was director...
View ArticleCelebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019
Alumnus Steven John Keating SM '12, PhD '16 passed away from brain cancer on July 19 at the age of 31.Keating received his master’s degree and PhD in mechanical engineering and was a member of the MIT...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Samuel Bowring, pioneering geologist and expert in...
Professor Emeritus Samuel A. Bowring, a longtime MIT professor of geology, died on July 17 at age 65.Known for his exceptional skill as a field geologist and for innovatons in uranium-lead isotopic...
View ArticleJack Kerrebrock, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics, dies at 91
Jack L. Kerrebrock, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, died at home on July 19. He was 91.Born in Los Angeles in 1928, Kerrebrock received his BS in 1950 from Oregon State...
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